Joliet Police Department

Joliet Police Department has lost 8 officers across 109 years on record. 5 — 62.5% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 4.4 percentage points above the national average of 58.1% for Police Departments — reflecting the particular danger faced by officers in this jurisdiction.

3 officers were lost to accidents — 37.5% of this agency's fallen, compared to 28.4% nationally for Police Departments. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 3 officers who died did so in an accident.