Daily News | Temple officer’s death underscores the increasing risks faced by the police
laid Temple University Police Officer Christopher Fitzgerald to rest in Center City on Friday
, patrol cars and police motorcycles bearing the insignias of departments near and far sat parked in orderly diagonal rows on either side of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. In all, the vehicles stretched for about a mile from the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul — where Fitzgerald’s funeral service was held — to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as hundreds of officers from around the country donned their dress uniforms to give Fitzgerald, borne in a flag-draped coffin, one final crisp salute.
“Anyone that’s wearing a badge is well aware that it could be us any given day,” Lt. David Chasmer of the police department in Union City, N.J.,And it is a ritual that, according to law enforcement figures, is sadly becoming ever more common. In 2021, , 73 officers were killed in the line of duty — the most since 2001, when 72 officers were killed in a single day during the Sept. 11 terror attacks.The FBI has not yet released last year’s statistics on the killing of law enforcement officers. But a new report by the
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