Lieutenant

Harry G. Emsley

Los Angeles Police Department — Los Angeles, CA
Accident
End of Watch January 12, 1939
Age 46
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Gender Male

Incident

Lieutenant Emsley was killed in a motorcycle accident. He was fatally injured when his motorcycle crashed on Foothill boulevard a quarter-mile mile south of Weldon Canyon Road. He succumbed to a skull fracture and internal injuries at the Georgia Street Receiving hospital, where he had been taken shortly after the accident.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Lieutenant Emsley served with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Los Angeles community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Emsley.

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

Agency

Type Police Department
Location Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Platform Identity lapd.losangeles.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 12, 1939
Age 46
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

The Sacrifice · Accident

Harry 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 1939, 61 officers in the United States were lost to accidents, the 72nd heaviest of 174 years on record. The heaviest was 1929, with 118.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Harry was 46. Of the 7,718 lost to accidents in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 29 and 46; the middle age was 36.

Age at death
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Age by years of service
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When

January holds 7.7% of these deaths in the United States; August holds the most, 9.5%. Thursdays: 14%.

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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
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His people

Los Angeles Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Harry among them.

Across the years
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Where

Lieutenant Harry G. Emsley

Los Angeles Police Department · End of Watch January 12, 1939

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 24-E

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