With the death of Officer Thomas Lindsey, here are some numbers that put the death of police officers in perspective.

Did you know a total of 1,533 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the last ten years?  That's an average of one death every 58 hours.  There were 130 police deaths in 1999.

The average age of the officers killed, in the past century, was 38, and the average lengths of service is about eight years.  The youngest officers, seven of them, were all 19-years-old when they died.

The most dangerous hours for them: between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.  During the last decade, more officers were killed between 8 and 10 than during any other two-hour period.

Thanks to body armor, police deaths have been on the decline for the past two decades.

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