Detroit Police Officer Stanley Jerlecki was shot and killed responding to a jewelry store robbery in 1951. His story reminds us how far we've come in honoring the fallen and caring for their families.

In August 1987, Riverside, Illinois Police Officer Tom Weitzel stepped out of his squad car to check a suspicious vehicle parked on the wrong side of the street—no plates, dark tinted windows, door cracked open. Seconds later, a gang member rolled out of the back seat, racked a pump shotgun, and shot Tom at point-blank range.

A domestic violence call is one of the most dangerous a law enforcement officer will get. In 2002, it cost two veteran South Carolina officers their lives.

In a recently published letter to the editor, Citizens Behind the Badge Founder Craig W. Floyd calls out the Washington Post for omitting fallen Deputy Ricky Kinchen and wounded Deputy Aldranon English from its full-page obituary of their killer.

In this powerful episode of Heroes Behind the Badge, Executive Director of the National Black Sheriffs Association, Anthony Amerson, shares the extraordinary story of his father - Lucius Amerson - the first Black sheriff elected in the South since Reconstruction.

Officer Jerry Haaf was sitting in a restaurant having a cup of coffee near the end of his shift when he was brutally assassinated by two gang members who simply wanted to kill a cop.

On November 1, 1950, White House Police Private Leslie Coffelt sacrificed his life while preventing an attack on President Harry Truman by two Puerto Rican nationalists.

Sixty years after the JFK assassination, the questions and consequences still echo through Dallas.

Beyond the headlines of November 1963 were the families, officers, and everyday citizens whose lives changed forever in the aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination.

On November 22, 1963, shots rang out in Dealey Plaza — and the world changed in seconds. But behind the iconic images of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was a frantic, chaotic, and deeply human response unfolding inside the Dallas Police Department.

In 1998, a mentally deranged man went to the U.S. Capitol and launched a cold-blooded attack, killing two police officers. The heroic officers were the first to lie in honor in the Capitol rotunda.

Fifty years ago, two Florham Park (NJ) police officers were killed in an airplane crash while searching for marijuana crops. Their deaths inspired a national phenomenon called the Police Unity Tour.

What happens when the badge comes off? When the mission changes, but the heart that served still needs a place to go?

Officer Jerry Cline was killed in the line of duty in 1983. His wife, Yolanda, transformed her grief into a force for healing and became the national president of Concerns of Police Survivors.

Every year, more law enforcement officers die by suicide than from all line-of-duty causes combined.

Barry Rosekind died in a motorcycle crash nearly 70 years ago. His son, Mark, turned his father's loss into inspiration and became one of our nation's leaders in promoting safety on our roadways.

Ashley Guindon's motto was "live for something rather than die for nothing." She was proud to be a Marine Corps Reservist and police officer. Sadly, her tour of duty lasted just one day.

What happens when officers are ordered not to act even as lives hang in the balance?

Joseph Petrosino is thought to be the first Italian-American police officer ever to die in the line of duty, and the only NYPD officer to be killed on foreign soil.

At just 19 years old, Chris Cosgriff founded the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP) from his college dorm room. What started as a student project has grown into the nation’s leading digital memorial for fallen law enforcement officers, honoring their sacrifice and ensuring they are never forgotten.