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Police Officer

Jeffrey Barton Lindenberg

Los Angeles Police Department — Los Angeles, CA

Veteran → Veteran → Accident

End of Watch June 11, 1976

Age 30

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

Badge 14388

The Vigil Panel 117 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 239

Incident

Police Officer Jeffrey Lindenberg was killed when the helicopter he was training in lost power and crashed while landing. Officer Lindenberg was flying in a Bell 47-G5 helicopter and was practicing simulated urban high-rise rooftop landings by at an off-site pad on top of a small mountain near the Los Angeles Zoo in the hills above Hollywood. On short final approach, the engine lost power and the helicopter impacted four inches short of the pad. The helicopter rolled 162 feet down the mountain side and exploded. Officer Lindenberg was killed and another officer was seriously injured. Officer Lindenberg was a U.S Army veteran and had served with the Los Angeles Police Department for seven years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and seven-month old daughter.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Police Officer Lindenberg gave the Los Angeles Police Department 7 years.
Thank you for your service to the Los Angeles community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Los Angeles Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Platform Identity lapd.losangeles.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 11, 1976

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

Age 30

Badge Number 14388

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Jeffrey Barton Lindenberg served in the the United States military (1965â1968) before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Jeffrey Barton Lindenberg is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In CA, 719 of 1,837 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 39.1% of this state's fallen. That is 39.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Los Angeles Police Department, 97 of 240 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 40.4% of this agency's fallen.

Los Angeles Police Department

of 240 officers

40.4% Accident

CA — Statewide

719

of 1,837 officers

39.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident