Butte Police Department

Butte Police Department has lost 14 officers across 46 years on record. 10 — 71.4% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 13.3 percentage points above the national average of 58.1% for Police Departments — reflecting the particular danger faced by officers in this jurisdiction.

1 officer was lost to accidents — 7.1% of this agency's fallen, compared to 28.4% nationally for Police Departments. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 14 officers who died did so in an accident.