Search the Definitions. n. the death of a human being as the result of a wrongful act of another person. Such wrongful acts include: negligence (like careless driving), an inten- tional attack such as assault and/or battery, a death in the course of another crime, vehicular manslaughter, manslaughter or murder.
And salaries for officers in an urban area are normally higher than those in a rural area, he said. Location can factor into salary amounts. The average police and sheriff's patrol officer wage in Maryland, $59,880, is very close to the national number. But the average wage for that profession drops to an average of $51,900 in Virginia and $49,640 in the Salisbury area, the Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.
Police and detective first-line supervisors saw $84,260 for mean annual income and $40.51 for mean hourly wages. Salary by Industry. According to May 2014 BLS figures, the top paying industry for police and sheriff's patrol officers was state governments, which paid a mean hourly wage of $31.38 and an annual mean income $65,270. Local governments paid the second highest average wages of $28.57 hourly and $59,430 annually.