Miles M. Jackson

San Francisco Police Department — San Francisco, CA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch December 5, 1920

Tour of Duty 13 yrs

Badge 638

The Vigil Panel 40 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 105

Incident

Sergeant Miles Jackson, Officer Lester Dorman and Sheriff James Petray of the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department were shot and killed as they attempted to arrest four suspects in their home. The suspects had brutally attacked a group of girls in San Francisco and had been tracked to Santa Rosa. The three officers entered the home of the suspects to arrest them. One suspect was sitting on a couch, one was sitting in the corner of the same room and the other two were in the bathroom. As the officer were placing the first two suspects under arrest the suspect sitting on the couch jumped with a revolver and shot Officer Dorman and Sheriff Petray dead. Sergeant Jackson, who was in another room rushed to the shots, but he too was shot and killed. Before he fell dead, Sergeant Jackson was able to shoot and wound one suspect. All four suspects were arrested later in the day and brought to the local jail. An angry group of men demanded the killers be turned over to them to be hanged. After a standoff the mob finally prevailed and the suspects were dragged from their cells and hung. Sergeant Jackson, a U.S. Navy veteran, had been with the agency for 13 years and was survived by his sister and two brothers, one a San Francisco Police Officer and the other a San Jose Police Officer. Sergeant Jackson is buried at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma, California.

Survivors

Navy veteran, had been with the agency for 13 years and was survived by his sister and two brothers, one a San Francisco Police Officer and the other a San Jose Police Officer.

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Last updated: August 2, 2026

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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.
Detective Sergeant Jackson gave the San Francisco Police Department 13 years.
Thank you for your service to the San Francisco 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 San Francisco Police Department

Type Police Department

Location San Francisco, CA

Platform Identity sfpd.sf.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 5, 1920

Tour of Duty 13 yrs

Badge Number 638

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Miles M. Jackson served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Detective Sergeant Miles M. Jackson 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 97,759 officers honored here.

In CA, 974 of 1,837 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 53% of this state's fallen. That is 53 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At San Francisco Police Department, 66 of 106 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 62.3% of this agency's fallen.

San Francisco Police Department

of 106 officers

62.3% Felonious

CA — Statewide

974

of 1,837 officers

53% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious