Oliver P. Carpenter
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Detective

Oliver P. Carpenter

Kansas City Police Department — Kansas City, MO
Felonious
End of Watch February 8, 1932
Age 56
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Gender Male

Incident

Detective Carpenter was shot and killed when he and his partner interrupted a robbery at the Mercantile Trust Company. Detective Carpenter was killed when one of two suspects opened fire with a machine gun. The gunman was arrested, tried for murder, and acquitted. The other suspect was assassinated a year later outside of his home by fellow gang members after he informed on them in an unrelated case.

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

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

Agency

Type Police Department
Location Kansas City, Cass County, MO
Platform Identity kcpd.jackson.mo.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 8, 1932
Age 56
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Rifle

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Oliver is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,117 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1932, 210 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 8th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Oliver was 56. Of the 14,220 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38.

Age at death
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When

February holds 7.4% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Mondays: 13.8%.

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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.

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His people

Kansas City Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Oliver among them.

Across the years

Detective Oliver P. Carpenter

Kansas City Police Department · End of Watch February 8, 1932

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 7-E

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