Record-High 378 Police Officers Shot on the Job in 2023: Report

Published on January 5, 2024

There have been 378 police officers shot in the line of duty in 2023, marking the highest number ever recorded, according to a report from the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) published on Jan. 2. The FOP is the largest law enforcement organization in the United States, with more than 373,000 members. “With the COVID-19 pandemic behind us and after so many Americans have seen the tragic consequences of the defund the police movement, it was our hope that these numbers would be a high-water mark. “We were wrong,” FOP President Patrick Yoes said in a press release. The recent figure represents a 14 percent increase from the 331 officers shot in 2022. There were 115 ambush-style attacks on law enforcement in 2023, resulting in 138 officers being shot, 20 of whom were killed....

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