The average age is 38, the average tour-of-duty – 10 years. In addition to losing 8 law enforcement professionals in the line-of-duty this year, there are two widows and five children who’ve lost a parent.
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If you want to know the toll that a line-of-duty
shooting can take, look at the pictures of McKeesport police Chief Adam Alfer. On Monday, he stood alongside other officials making statements and giving information about the death of one of his own, Officer Sean Sluganski, and the injury of another,