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I read editor Debra Downey's River of Tears piece and was moved. I, too, have never met Sharlene Bosma or her family, but feel so deeply saddened for them.

\"This year's overall reduction in law enforcement deaths was driven largely by a steep, 21 percent drop in the number of officers killed in traffic-related incidents,\" reported NLEOMF Chairman and CEO Craig W. Floyd. \"However, that bit of good news was overshadowed by an alarming surge in the number of officers killed by gunfire.\" According to Mr. Floyd, 48 officers were shot and killed in 2009, compared to 39 in 2008, which represents a 23 percent increase. \"To reach a 50-year low in officer deaths is a real credit to the law enforcement profession and its commitment to providing the best possible training and equipment to our officers,\" Mr. Floyd declared. \"But we cannot allow ourselves to be lulled into a state of complacency. There are nearly 60,000 criminal assaults against our law officers every year in this country, resulting in more than 15,000 injuries. And, over the past decade, more than 1,600 officers have been killed in the line of duty. Many of the cold-blooded career criminals our officers confront each and every day do not think twice about assaulting or killing a cop,\" he said. \"I am personally learning that it's never over for us, as my husband's killer was released from prison on December 28, 2009. Even 11 years later, my family, [Investigator Brandon Thacker]'s co-workers and I are in need of the continued support from C.O.P.S.,\" Mrs. Thacker said. \"C.O.P.S. continues to keep the promises made to law enforcement survivors, providing support and resources to rebuild their shattered lives today and years later.\"

To help prevent officer deaths and injuries this holiday season, the \"Drive Safely\" campaign of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) is again reminding motorists to pay special attention to officers on the roads and to follow other common-sense traffic safety measures. \"Again this year, our dedicated law enforcement officers will be called on to give up time with their own families so the rest of us can travel in safety to spend the holidays with our loved ones. Every time we get behind the wheel -- and especially during the holidays -- we owe these brave men and women our full attention and consideration,\" said NLEOMF Chairman and CEO Craig W. Floyd. Now celebrating its 25th year, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is a private non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the service and sacrifice of America's law enforcement officers and to promoting officer safety. The NLEOMF maintains the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, which contains the names of 18,661 officers who have died in the line of duty throughout U.S. history. The Memorial Fund is now working to create the first-ever National Law Enforcement Museum, which will tell the story of law enforcement through high-tech, interactive exhibitions, historical artifacts and extensive educational programming. For more information, visit www.LawMemorial.org.

\"Twenty-five years ago, there was no National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial to honor those dedicated law enforcement officers who put the safety and protection of others ahead of their own, and far too many of our law enforcement heroes went unrecognized and unheralded,\" said NLEOMF Chairman and CEO Craig W. Floyd, who has led the organization since its inception. \"Today, our nation's law enforcement officers are more appreciated and safer, because of the work of the Memorial Fund and our partners and supporters.\" \"At its core, the mission of the Memorial Fund is to generate increased public support for the law enforcement profession,\" said Mr. Floyd. \"For the past 25 years, we have accomplished this not only by commemorating the service and sacrifice of America's law enforcement officers on the National Memorial, but also by providing information that promotes law enforcement safety. Over the next 25 years, we will take our mission to an entirely new level, with the opening of the first-ever national museum devoted to telling the full and incredible story of law enforcement in America,\" he added. Now celebrating its 25th year, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is a private non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the service and sacrifice of America's law enforcement officers and to promoting officer safety. The NLEOMF maintains the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, which contains the names of 18,661 officers who have died in the line of duty throughout U.S. history. The Memorial Fund is now working to create the first-ever National Law Enforcement Museum, which will tell the story of law enforcement through high-tech, interactive exhibitions, historical artifacts and extensive educational programming. For more information, visit www.LawMemorial.org.

Joseph Persichini, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, and Virginia Hill O'Branovich, whose husband, Alexandria (VA) Police Corporal Charles Hill, was shot and killed in the line of duty 20 years ago, are the featured speakers at the event. A special tribute will be paid to the four law enforcement officers from Maryland and Virginia and the four federal law enforcement agents who lost their lives in the performance of duty over the previous 12 months. Twenty-five years ago, on October 19, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 98-534, authorizing the establishment of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial on federal land in an area of the nation's capital known as Judiciary Square. Almost exactly seven years later, on October 15, 1991, the Memorial was dedicated during a ceremony led by President George H.W. Bush. At the time of its dedication, the Memorial's marble walls contained the names of 12,668 fallen law enforcement officers. Now celebrating its 25th year, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is a private non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the service and sacrifice of America's law enforcement officers and to promoting officer safety. The NLEOMF maintains the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, which contains the names of 18,661 officers who have died in the line of duty throughout U.S. history. The Memorial Fund is now working to create the first-ever National Law Enforcement Museum, which will tell the story of law enforcement through high-tech, interactive exhibitions, historical artifacts and extensive educational programming. For more information, visit www.LawMemorial.org.

Now celebrating its 25th year, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is a private non-profit organization dedicated to honoring the service and sacrifice of America's law enforcement officers and to promoting officer safety. The NLEOMF maintains the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, which contains the names of 18,661 officers who have died in the line of duty throughout U.S. history. The Memorial Fund is now working to create the first-ever National Law Enforcement Museum, which will tell the story of law enforcement through high-tech, interactive exhibitions, historical artifacts and extensive educational programming. For more information, visit www.LawMemorial.org \"Twenty-five years ago, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund was created with the vision of honoring the memory of those heroes who gave their own lives for the safety and protection of others. Seven years later, we dedicated the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, as our nation's monument to law enforcement service and sacrifice,\" said NLEOMF Chairman and CEO Craig W. Floyd.

Among the law enforcement officers who died on 9/11 were 71 killed at the World Trade Center, plus one officer--Richard Guadagno, a sworn refuge manager with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service--who was among the passengers who died in Pennsylvania while fighting to regain control of Flight 93 from the terrorists. Thirty-seven members of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Force, including its Superintendent, Fred Morrone, died on 9/11; that represents the most fatalities suffered by a single law enforcement agency in one day in U.S. history. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It remains the deadliest day in U.S. law enforcement history: 72 peace officers killed in the line of duty during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Eight years after that tragic day, these heroic men and women will be remembered during a ceremony at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.

\"While it is encouraging that officer fatalities remain comparatively low, the 2009 figures do present some cause for concern,\" said NLEOMF Chairman and CEO Craig W. Floyd. \"Officers continue to face serious threats from armed offenders who don't think twice about opening fire on law enforcement. That was tragically illustrated by the horrific multiple-death incidents this year in Oakland, Pittsburgh and Okaloosa County, Florida,\" he said. \"While my heart aches each time a law enforcement officer dies in the line of duty, I find solace to know that those families, affected co-workers, and agencies will be embraced in the law enforcement family, and they will be comforted with a lifetime of support during their grief walk through C.O.P.S.,\" added Mrs. Thacker. Her husband, Investigator Brandon Thacker of the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, was shot and killed in the line of duty in April 1998. The statistics released by the NLEOMF and C.O.P.S. are preliminary and do not represent a final or complete list of individual officers who will be added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial for 2009. The report, \"Law Enforcement Officer Deaths, Mid-Year 2009 Report,\" is available at www.nleomf.org/TheMemorial/Facts/2009MidYearReport.pdf.

Mr. Floyd reported that more than $37 million has been raised to date for the Museum, but he said that the economic downturn has slowed the effort and the credit crisis has made it virtually impossible to borrow money at affordable rates for museum projects. \"The credit market and the economy will revive, but the timing is uncertain, and we want to see our Museum become a reality sooner rather than later,\" Mr. Floyd stated. \"The story of law enforcement's extraordinary contributions to our nation needs and deserves to be told. We are going to make it happen.\" \"The result of these modifications will be a high-tech, interactive, world-class Museum exploring our nation's law enforcement profession, at a much more affordable price in today's difficult economy,\" said Craig W. Floyd, Chairman and CEO of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF), which is in charge of the project. \"These changes were necessary and fiscally prudent given the stark economic realities we are dealing with,\" he added. The revised plan was approved last week by the NLEOMF's Board of Directors, representing 16 of the country's largest and most prestigious law enforcement organizations.