Nassau County Police Department

Nassau County Police Department has lost 51 officers across 100 years on record. 12 — 23.5% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 34.6 percentage points below the national average of 58.1% for Police Departments.

21 officers were lost to accidents — 41.2% of this agency's fallen, compared to 28.4% nationally for Police Departments. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 2 officers who died did so in an accident.

Nassau County Police Department honors 2 officers whose deaths were 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 3.9% of this agency's fallen, compared to a national average of 0.8% for Police Departments.