A non-profit organization on Thursday said the number of law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty dipped by 20 percent in 2012 after a two-year rise, the Associated Press reports.
According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 127 federal, state and local officers have died thus far — a toll that puts 2012 on pace to be the least deadly year for law enforcement since 2009 and the second lowest number of deaths since 1960. Forty-nine of the deaths involved firearms.
