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

MEDIA | February 26, 2021
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COVID-19 was leading killer of police officers in 2020, the deadliest year for nation’s law enforcement since 1974, study says

cleveland.comMark 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.