Thomas F. Steinacker

Baltimore Police Dept. — Baltimore, MD

Accident

End of Watch October 4, 1932

Tour of Duty 43 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 150

Incident

Officer Steinacker died of injuries he received while on duty. Officer Steinacker had been with the agency for 43 years.

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43 years. You could have gone home.
Police Officer Steinacker gave the Baltimore City Police Department 43 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Baltimore community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Steinacker.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Baltimore Police Dept.

Location Baltimore, MD

Platform Identity baltpd.baltimore.md.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 4, 1932

Tour of Duty 43 yrs

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Police Officer Thomas F. Steinacker is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 6.1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.

At Baltimore Police Dept., 52 of 151 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 34.4% of this agency's fallen.

Baltimore Police Dept.

of 151 officers

34.4% Accident

MD — Statewide

140

of 377 officers

37.1% Accident

Nationwide

10,088

of 32,508 officers

31% Accident