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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.
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 NYPD has lost 932 officers in the line of duty since 1849. This figure includes officers from agencies that were later absorbed by or became a part of the modern NYPD, in addition to the NYPD itself. This number also includes 28 officers killed on and off duty by gunfire of other officers on duty.
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.
James Connolly shot and killed two men in the line of duty in his first five years on the NYPD. He was later found to have lied on the witness stand during a civil lawsuit brought by the family of ...
Sledge, a U.S. Army veteran with 12 years on the force, was the first cop killed in a one-man radio car patrol. The one-cop patrols stopped after his death. The officer left behind a 9-month old ...
The Officer Down Memorial Page reports 150 deaths in the line of duty. [25] The leading cause of death for 2019 was gunfire at 49 deaths followed by 9/11-related cancers at 24 deaths. The state with the highest number of line-of-duty deaths was New York with 25 followed by Texas with 18.
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.