Walter D. Davis

Baltimore Police Department — Baltimore, MD

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch July 1, 1954

Age 30

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

The Vigil Panel 90 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 150

Incident

Police Officer Walter Davis was killed when his patrol car was involved in an automobile crash on Harford Road near Montebello Terrace at 5:07 a.m. The lights on the traffic pylons were not working, and his patrol car struck a pylon on the roadway. He passed away at Union Memorial Hospital. Officer Davis was a United States Naval Reserve WWII veteran and had served with the Baltimore City Police Department for two years. He was survived by his wife, two daughters,

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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 Davis gave the Baltimore City Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Baltimore 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 Baltimore Police Department

Type Other

Location Baltimore, MD

Platform Identity baltpd.baltimore.md.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 1, 1954

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Age 30

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Walter D. Davis served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Walter D. Davis 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 MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 37.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Baltimore Police Department, 52 of 151 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 34.4% of this agency's fallen.

Baltimore Police Department

of 151 officers

34.4% Accident

MD — Statewide

140

of 377 officers

37.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident