Just as murders overall are falling, the murders of police is also declining the last couple of years, and the drop for police last year is about as large as the 20% drop in overall murders last year. The 53 officers murdered in 2025 is the lowest total since 2020. It is a 17.2% drop from 2024. The decline appears to be continuing in 2026. From January to March 2026, offenders murdered ten officers, compared with fifteen during the same period in 2025 and fourteen in 2024. The drop between those three months in 2025 and 2026 was 33.3%. Of the ten officers murdered in the beginning of 2026, seven were white, one was black, one Asian, and one not reported. Given that about 70.5% of officers were white, 13.7% were black, and 2.5% were Asian, The percent of white officers murdered is the same as their percent of the officers, and the percent of black officers murdered is slightly less than their share of all officers, while Asians are murdered at disproportionately high rate.
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