Curious: What type of death benefit does a slain officer's family get?

Callous:
showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others


I take umberage with the use of describing my post in that way. Actually I think it was quite the opposite.

I generally want to know how much. And if it's not enough that's a travesty.

Unfortunately the topic requires the verbiage that i used on my OP.

Sucks buts it's true

So does the family get
Life insurance proceeds
Pension.


I'm all for the benefit thrown to raise money. I just want to make sure it's not because the families of these officers will be on the street without it.

Thank you.

Jesus, $100k in a death benefit and only percentage of their salary?!?!

THAT IS SOME bullshite RIGHT THERE.

I recall a buddy of mine was an ex cop. He had a turd fight with him and grab his gun as my buddy was going to draw. In the clusterfrick of hands it went off. Basically just blew everything in his pocket to shite. Lol

He spent a night in the hospital just because. And he was technically a "shot cop". He said cash started rolling in. It was well past the point of his lost wages and medical bills which were minimal. He is a decent guy so he was hit with guilt. He said it was a royal PITA to give a lot of the money back.

He made it sound like it became substantial. He took care of his expenses and couldn't bring himself to keep what he "didn't deserve".

So I can't imagine what it must be for a slain officer or a cop who is seriously injured.

Cops buy term life like everybody else. Some more than others of course . But you would think that there would be some kind of department benefits at a higher face value than 100k. People die and leave their family destitute every day though. Not everybody is proactive.

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Do you realize what a huge piece of shite you are?

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the irony

I think there's quite a bit of misinformation that floats around on this topic so hopefully this puts a few minds more at ease.

In Louisiana, the spouse->children->named beneficiary->officer's estate (in that priority order) will receive $250,000 from the state if the officer is killed in the performance of official duties. An additional $25,000 is also paid to each dependent child by the state.

For agencies that pay into the municipal police retirement system (BRPD, NOPD, etc), a slain officer's spouse receives 100% of the officer's average final pay (I believe a 3 year average, possibly 5 year average) until the spouse's death.

State Police Retirement System pays a slain officer's spouse 75% of the officer/trooper's final salary until death or until the spouse remarries if remarrying prior to age 55. If there is not a spouse, minor children receive the benefit instead.

The state-wide sheriff's office employee pension system pays the surviving spouse between 50% and 80% of the deputy's salary until death. I believe the spread is based on children i.e. 50% for spouse only, 65% for spouse +1 child, 80% for spouse +2 or more children. Without a spouse, children receive 15% per child up to 60% of the deputy's salary.

Children of slain officers are given paid-for tuition, books, fees, room and board to a state university for 4 years.

The Department of Justice PSOB program also pays the slain officer's survivors a lump sum benefit amount (currently $343,589).


Added to this would be whatever private or employer-offered life insurance coverage an officer may have.

For Lt. Anderson's situation, his spouse and children should receive approximately $650,000 or so combined lump sum benefits, 80% of his salary from the pension system, education benefits for his children, various other benefits, and hopefully additional money from personal insurance policies.

And they'd rather not have any of that and would just want him back instead.

Louisiana benefits explanation
Federal benefits explanation


ETA:

To answer your initial question about if there are fundraisers because the survivor benefits suck, I agree with Tigerpaw that the financial element of the fundraising is secondary to the show of support from the community. But that said, I imagine any additional funds definitely help with making up the difference in the officer's lost income (extra duty and overtime and so on) and probably in many cases the surviving spouse is going to lose income and have additional expenses by becoming a single parent.

Ok. That's much better and manageable. Still a horrible situation obviously, but just 100k would have been insane.

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According to osha the garbage man is the most likely to die at work of the public servants. What sort of ridiculous benefits do you support for them?

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When garbage cans start carrying guns and fighting back you might have a beginning to starting to make a point. Until then don't compare the two. Sure, cops are dumb, couldn't do anything else, blah blah. I get it. But a dumb frick that jumps on a truck for $40 a day to sling garbage and accidentally steps in traffic and gets hit by a car is a whole lot different than a cop out on a busy hwy directing traffic around and accident scene that gets hit. Or gets shot trying to take a POS into custody that is a threat to society.