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Incident
Captain Philip Street died as the result of complications after contracting COVID-19 while on duty at the Walker County Jail.
Captain Street had served with the Walker County Sheriff's Office for seven years and had previously served as the elected sheriff of Dade County for 20 years.
Beginning in early 2020, thousands of law enforcement officers and other first responders throughout the country began to contract COVID-19 during the worldwide pandemic. Due to the nature of their job, law enforcement officers were required to work and interact with the community even as the majority of the country was self-quarantined. As a result, hundreds of officers died from COVID-related illnesses and other complications.
Corrections agencies, in particular, suffered tremendous losses due to the constant and close proximity between the corrections officers and large inmate populations. Since March 2020, ODMP has verified that over 900 law enforcement officers have died as the result of a confirmed or presumed exposure while on duty and continues to work with hundreds of other agencies that have suffered a COVID-related death.
Visit ODMP's COVID-19 memorial listing every officer who has died as a result of a confirmed or presumed exposure.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Captain Philip Edward Street died on November 27, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 66.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
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The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Captain Street gave the Walker County Sheriff's Office 27 years.
Thank you for your service to the Lafayette community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Captain Street.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Captain Philip Edward Street is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,784 officers honored here.
In GA, 63 of 905 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 7% of this state's fallen. That is 7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Walker County Sheriff's Office, 1 of 9 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 11.1% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Philip Edward Street's cause is highlighted.
How Philip Edward Street Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Philip Edward Street is highlighted in Nov.
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