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On December 20, 2014, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley shot and killed Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu — two on-duty New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers — in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Brinsley then fled into the New York City Subway, where he killed himself.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund counted 126 federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers killed. [14] The preliminary count from the FBI is that 51 law enforcement officers were 'feloniously' killed in the line of duty in 2014, and an additional 44 died in accidents (total: 95).
Edward Byrne (February 21, 1966 – February 26, 1988) was a police officer in the New York City Police Department who became well known in the United States after he was murdered in the line of duty. Byrne's father had also been an NYPD officer. Byrne had joined the NYPD on July 15, 1986, and was stationed in the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica, Queens.
The last NYPD officer fatally shot in the line of duty, Brian Mulkeen, was hit by friendly fire while struggling with an armed man after chasing and shooting at him in the Bronx in September 2019.
The NYPD has added more than three dozen new names to its memorial honoring officers who died in the line of duty — with Mayor Eric Adams saying the fallen watered “the tree of freedom” with ...
Thousands of policemen from around the United States gathered on Friday at the funeral of a 25-year-old New York City officer who was shot in the head while on patrol, making him the third member ...
This was the first killing of an NYPD officer in the line of duty since January 2022, when two officers responding to a domestic disturbance call were shot in a Harlem apartment building. Diller's killing generated widespread attention in New York City.
Officer Anastasios Tsakos was posthumously promoted to detective first grade by Police Commissioner Dermot Shea during the funeral in Greenlawn