80 Security Officers Dead From Gunfire This Year
Charlotte NC November 11, 2021
Year after year, most security officers on the job are killed by gunfire, not in car accidents, training incidents, or other workplace hazards.
Tragically, this year, that fact is true again.
Eighty, private security officers, including three commissioned, special police officers have been murdered as of December 8th.
Of those, ninety-two percent have died of gunfire.
More than one hundred other security personnel have died this year from the Coronavirus.
These numbers, though shocking, are not the whole story.
Many security officer deaths never make national media headlines, let alone, a few lines in their local newspaper or a twenty-second soundbite on their hometown evening news.
Nationally, there is no one reporting agency keeping track of the injuries or deaths of private security personnel.
Each state does have an agency that collects overall data of workplace deaths and OSHA, a federal agency, does receive that information to calculate state and national workplace death statistics. But many security officer names are not included in these figures.
Problems have arisen almost yearly with the classification of the deceased employees.
We have found security officers classified as store clerks, maintenance workers, pool attendants, hotel desk clerks, and an array of other incorrect titles. This misinformation causes the true numbers to be inaccurate and misleading.
Private Officer International, a private security and law enforcement association, spends more than one hundred hours a week, curating news from over 3000 sources.
At the expense of the organization, staff verify much of the information, track the information, obtain updates to injured officers and aid in the fundraising for those injured, families of the deceased, and assist Crime Stoppers efforts in providing funding for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for the murder of any security or special police officer.
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