The Thursday attack that saw five Dallas police officers killed and seven others wounded was not only the country’s most deadly attack on law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001, it also represented the end of a nearly year-long period where, according to a Texas attorney general’s office report required under a new state law, no Texas officers were killed in shooting incidents.
And until Thursday night’s violence there had been no shooting in which a Dallas Police Department officer died since 2009, according to a police memorial website.
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