Below 100
August 18 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Below 100 Program is designed to drastically reduce law enforcement Line of Duty Deaths (LODD’s). The Below 100 program specifically addresses the operational areas of law enforcement that contribute to the greatest number of LODD’s, but are in large part preventable. The Below 100 program is an effort to instill a culture of safety in law enforcement agencies that will progressively reduce national LODD’s to Below 100 annually.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page (www.odmp.org) who tracks and publishes details about law enforcement officer LODD’s, the last time there were less than 100 officers killed in the line of duty was 1943. In 1943 there were 93 officers killed in the line of duty.
A review of the data by decade reveals that LODD’s steadily increased, reaching a historic high in 1973 with 279 deaths.