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.
Pay by Employer. The average salary for local police officers was $56,160 a year as of 2011. Police officers employed by the federal government earned less, averaging $51,690 a year. State police and highway patrol officers reported the highest earnings, with an average of $60,650 a year.alf of all police and highway patrol officers made between $19.77 and $33.65 an hour and between $41,110 and $69,990 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Approximately 636,410 police and patrol officers were employed in the United States as of May 2011.