Nationwide, 128 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2017 — the lowest level in four years, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF), a nonprofit group that tracks fatalities.
No police officers from Utah were killed in 2017, down from three on-the-job deaths in 2016. Also, no Utah officers were killed in 2015.
This year saw a reversal of a three-year trend in which the number of officer deaths had increased across the nation, according to the NLEOMF report.
In addition to Utah, the District of Columbia and 13 other states had no officer fatalities in 2017.