Roll of Honor
Jonathan B. Hickman
Incident
Location: Florida Incident Date: Friday, December 4, 2020
Senior Police Officer Jonathan Hickman died from complications as a result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.
Officer Hickman was a United States Army military police veteran and had served with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police Services for nine years, assigned to the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa, Florida.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Senior Police Officer Jonathan B. Hickman died on December 15, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 45.
He is one of 884 officers honored here, and one of 2 at United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police Services.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and three children.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Senior Police Officer Hickman gave the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police Services 14 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Police Officer Hickman.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Jonathan B. Hickman served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.
Senior Police Officer Jonathan B. Hickman is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In DC, 137 of 1,419 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 9.7% of this state's fallen. That is 0.6 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.
At United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police Services, 2 of 11 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 18.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Jonathan B. Hickman's cause is highlighted.
How Jonathan B. Hickman Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Jonathan B. Hickman is highlighted in Dec.
Incident Location
Others Who Wore This Badge
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