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Glenn E. Smith
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Police Officer

Glenn E. Smith

Detroit Police Department — Detroit, MI
Felonious
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End of Watch October 24, 1970
Age 26
Tour of Duty 2 yrs
Badge 1419
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Gender Male
Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Department 249

Incident

Police Officer Glenn Smith was shot and killed by a sniper at a house used by the Black Panther Party located at 3376 Sixteenth Street. Officer Smith, in plainclothes, was responding to a call for help from two fellow officers who had tried to ticket two young supporters of the Black Panther Party for illegally distributing literature. When he arrived at the scene, a rifle barrel poked out of the bay window of the home and fired once, killing Officer Smith. After a standoff, all 16 occupants of the home surrendered and were eventually all found not guilty. Officer Smith had been a Detroit Police Officer for two years. Survivors include his wife, parents, and siblings. The Black Panther Party was a black nationalist and Marxist revolutionary political and militant organization active in the United States between 1966 and 1982. Members and former members of the group were responsible for the murders of over 20 law enforcement officers and the wounding of dozens more across the nation. Please click here to visit all the law enforcement officers who have died as a result of the Black Panther Party's violent activism.

Survivors

Survivors include his wife, parents, and siblings.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Officer Smith gave the Detroit Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Detroit community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Smith.

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

Agency

Department Detroit Police Department
Type Police Department
Location Detroit, Wayne County, MI
Platform Identity detpd.wayne.mi.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 24, 1970
Tour of Duty 2 yrs
Age 26
Badge Number 1419
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Rifle

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Glenn is one of 15,742 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,102 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1970, 138 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 29th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Glenn was 26. Of the 14,219 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38. Glenn had served 2 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

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When

October holds 7.9% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Saturdays: 16.3%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was rifle, in 5.9% of these deaths.

Every cause
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His people

Detroit Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Glenn among them.

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Where

Police Officer Glenn E. Smith

Detroit Police Department · End of Watch October 24, 1970

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 18-W

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