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Michael Lewis Hill
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Lieutenant

Michael Lewis Hill

Memphis Police Department — Memphis, TN
Illness
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End of Watch November 4, 2021
Age 60
Tour of Duty 33 yrs
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Gender Male
Incident Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Keepsakes Department 93

Incident

Lieutenant Michael Hill died as a result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.

Lieutenant Hill had served with the Memphis Police Department for 33 years.

Beginning in early 2020, thousands of law enforcement officers and other first responders throughout the country began to contract COVID-19 during the worldwide pandemic. Due to the nature of their job, law enforcement officers were required to work and interact with the community even as the majority of the country was self-quarantined. As a result, hundreds of officers died from COVID-related illnesses and other complications.

Visit ODMP's COVID-19 memorial listing every officer who has died as a result of a confirmed or presumed exposure.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Lieutenant Michael Lewis Hill died on November 4, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 60.

He is one of 884 officers honored here, and one of 3 at Memphis Police Department.

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.

In Our Keeping

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Lieutenant Hill gave the Memphis Police Department 33 years.
Thank you for your service to the Memphis community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Hill.

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

Agency

Department Memphis Police Department
Type Police Department
Location Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Platform Identity mpd.shelby.tn.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 4, 2021
Tour of Duty 33 yrs
Age 60
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Michael is one of 2,026 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,543 remembered there.

33,910 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2021, 564 officers in the United States were lost to illness, more than in any other year.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Michael was 60. Of the 1,994 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Michael had served 33 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

November holds 7.8% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 15%. Thursdays: 15.7%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,543 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Memphis Police Department has 94 officers remembered here, Michael among them.

Across the years
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Where

Lieutenant Michael Lewis Hill

Memphis Police Department · End of Watch November 4, 2021

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 20-W

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