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Police Officer

John Silinsky

Yonkers Police Department — Yonkers, NY

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch September 30, 1982

Age 58

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

Badge 157

The Vigil Panel 126 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 19

Incident

Police Officer John Silinsky was shot and mortally wounded at 12:20 a.m. when he attempted to stop a robbery while off duty. The suspect attempted to rob the Major Deegan Motel at 3600 Bailey Avenue in the Bronx, where Officer Silinsky moonlighted as a night manager. Officer Silinsky witnessed two armed men entering the hotel. He shut and locked the door, but the subject fired through the door, striking Officer Silinsky in the head with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. The men fled the scene. Officer Silinsky was transported to a local hospital but died four days later. A suspect was later arrested and charged with murder but was found not guilty. Officer Silinsky was a United States WWII U.S. Army veteran and served with the Yonkers Police Department for 28 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, three children, and grandchildren.

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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 Silinsky gave the Yonkers Police Department 28 years.
Thank you for your service to the Yonkers 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 Yonkers Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Yonkers, Westchester County, NY

Platform Identity ypd.westchester.ny.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 30, 1982

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

Age 58

Badge Number 157

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

John Silinsky served in the U.S. Army (1943â1946) before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer John Silinsky is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In NY, 728 of 2,147 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 33.9% of this state's fallen. That is 33.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Yonkers Police Department, 3 of 20 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 15% of this agency's fallen.

Yonkers Police Department

of 20 officers

15% Felonious

NY — Statewide

728

of 2,147 officers

33.9% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious