Engraved on the walls in a section of the American Police Hall of Fame & Museum in Titusville, Florida are the names of law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. The area with the 2020 additions to the list is more than twice as large as a typical year, Florida Today reports. There are 374 names. Of those, 245, or 66 percent, died of COVID-19, including 15 police officers from Florida, according to Lori Shepherd, the museum's director of family survivor services. COVID-19 has emerged over the last 18 months as the biggest killer of police in the Sunshine State. It has replaced traffic accidents and gunshot wounds as the leading cause of death among law enforcement agents in the line of duty.

Engraved on the walls in a section of the American Police Hall of Fame &amp; Museum in Titusville, Florida are the names of law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. The area with the 2020 additions to the list is more than twice as large as a typical year, Florida Today reports. There are 374 names. Of those, 245, or 66 percent, died of COVID-19, including 15 police officers from Florida, according to Lori Shepherd, the museum's director of family survivor services. COVID-19 has emerged over the last 18 months as the biggest killer of police in the Sunshine State. It has replaced traffic accidents and gunshot wounds as the leading cause of death among law enforcement agents in the line of duty.

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