This combination of images shows, top row, from left, Christopher David Murray, Cody Olafson, Cornelius Anderson, Timothy Guyer, Edgar Ordonez, Kevin Reaux, Thomas Coulter, second row, Marcus Zeigler, Mulwa Sumbi, Patrick Dupree, Ronald Donat, William “Tex” Bailey, Wisbens Antoine, Spencer Englett, bottom row, Asson Hacker, Donald Fredenburg Jr., Enrique Delgado-Garcia, Michelle Strube, Marquis Kennedy, Vincent Parks and Andrew Sockwell. (Frisco Police Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, New York City Police Department, Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Daytona Beach Police Department, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, Law Enforcement Candidates Scholars’ Program, Georgia State Patrol, Sharline Volcy, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, Knoxville Police Department, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department, Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Marine Corps, Massachusetts State Police, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Cassidy Hill, Jonesboro Police Department, City of Plano via AP)
In exclusive investigation, AP uncovers at least 29 police recruits died nationwide while training to become officers
Ryan J. Foley tracked something no federal agency or outside organization does—uncovering the deaths of police recruits during training, a crisis disproportionately affecting Black men and one that experts say could have been prevented. Foley began investigating the death of a police recruit in Indiana last year and soon noticed similar cases across the country. […]
FEB. 28, 2025
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