Skip to main content
GettyImages-1215315275-e1632326359724

Begun Center's Mark Singer talks about the leading killer of police officers in 2020: COVID-19

Media | February 26, 2021 | Story by: Editorial Staff

COVID-19 was leading killer of police officers in 2020, the deadliest year for nation’s law enforcement since 1974, study says

cleveland.com: Mark Singer, the Leonard W. Mayo Professor in Family and Child Welfare and deputy director of Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, discussed a new report highlighting that COVID-19 was the single most significant cause of line-of-duty deaths in 2020, and accounted for more dead police officers than any other cause, including gun violence and traffic crashes combined.