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.
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coronavirus. Police using protection methods to avoid contagion by coronavirus