Though the number of police officers killed in the line of duty has dropped, non-fatal assaults against them have been rising since 2021, according to new data released Monday by the FBI.

New FBI statistics show that 72 law enforcement officers were killed criminally in the line of duty in 2011, making it the highest number of police deaths nationally since 1995. The numbers rose from ...

(NewsNation) — The shooting death of a Chicago police officer last weekend by a habitual, violent offender awaiting trial on felony charges has revived debate over the Illinois law that abolished the ...

Vance praised what he described as public safety progress under the Trump administration. He said on-duty law enforcement deaths reached their lowest level in 80 years in 2025 and that the U.S. murder ...