Detective

Richard Connors

New Orleans Police Department — New Orleans, LA
Accident
End of Watch January 3, 1928
The Vigil Panel 54 ›
Gender Male

Incident

Detective Richard Connors and Detective Albert Wiebelt drowned when their police car crashed through the Napoleon Avenue ferry gate and plunged into the Mississippi River. Their deaths were ruled accidental.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Detective Connors served with the New Orleans Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the New Orleans community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective Connors.

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

Agency

Type Police Department
Location New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA
Platform Identity nopd.orleans.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 3, 1928
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

The Sacrifice · Accident

Richard is one of 8,275 officers lost to accidents in the United States, 30% of the 27,551 remembered there.

33,917 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1928, 103 officers in the United States were lost to accidents, the 5th heaviest of 174 years on record. The heaviest was 1929, with 118.

Every year on record · United States
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When

January holds 7.7% of these deaths in the United States; August holds the most, 9.5%. Tuesdays: 14.1%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Accident deaths account for 30% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the 2nd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

New Orleans Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Richard among them.

Across the years
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Where

Detective Richard Connors

New Orleans Police Department · End of Watch January 3, 1928

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 38-W

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