Odessa Police Dept. has lost
5
officers
.
3 — 60% — were killed feloniously,
meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty.
This is 8.4 percentage points below the national average of 68.4% for Others.
2 officers were lost to accidents —
40% of this agency's fallen, compared to 22.3% nationally for Others.
Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 3 officers who died did so in an accident.