Paterson Police Department

Paterson Police Department has lost 11 officers across 100 years on record. 5 — 45.5% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 12.6 percentage points below the national average of 58.1% for Police Departments.

3 officers were lost to accidents — 27.3% of this agency's fallen, compared to 28.4% nationally for Police Departments. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 4 officers who died did so in an accident.