California Highway Patrol

California Highway Patrol has lost 233 officers across 97 years on record. 71 — 30.5% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 3.4 percentage points below the national average of 33.9% for Highway Patrols.

151 officers were lost to accidents — 64.8% of this agency's fallen, compared to 60.8% nationally for Highway Patrols. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 2 officers who died did so in an accident.

California Highway Patrol honors 1 officer whose death was linked to the weight of the job — officers who served, who carried what the badge demands, and who deserve to be on this wall equally. badge.nw is one of the only memorials that honors these officers without exception. This represents 0.4% of this agency's fallen, compared to a national average of 0.4% for Highway Patrols.