Richmond Police Department

Richmond Police Department has lost 6 officers across 139 years on record. 4 — 66.7% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 8.6 percentage points above the national average of 58.1% for Police Departments — reflecting the particular danger faced by officers in this jurisdiction.

2 officers were lost to accidents — 33.3% 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.