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Other factors cited by Floyd for the reduction in police fatalities: A record 2.3 million adult criminals behind bars, according to a study released earlier this year by the Pew Center on the States. A 2007 violent crime rate that held steady at the 2005 level, according to the Justice Department. The Memorial Fund honors law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty and is in charge of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington. Concerns of Police Survivors provides support and counseling to surviving family members of officers killed in the line of duty. ___ On the Net: Memorial Fund: http://www.nleomf.org/ Police Survivors: http://www.nationalcops.org/
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