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.
Other Police Careers. Canine cops earn a slightly higher average salary than most law enforcement officers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national average salary among policemen and sheriff's patrol officers was $55,620 per year, or $26.74 per hour, as of May 2010.9 cop salary averages were slightly less than the average for detectives and criminal investigators, who earned a median salary of $60,910 per year in 2008 according to the BLS.