The Officer Down Memorial Page

ODMP.org

Remembering All of Law Enforcement's Heroes
Type of site	Online database
Available in	English
Created by	Chris Cosgriff
Website	www.ODMP.org
Alexa rank	149,261 (April 2014[update])
Commercial	Advertiser-supported
Registration	Optional
Launched	1996 (1996)
Current status	Active

The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. (ODMP) is a non-profit organization that maintains a website listing American law enforcement officers, prison officers and police dogs who have died in the line of duty.

The ODMP was established in 1996 by Chris Cosgriff, then a freshman at James Madison University. Originally, it focused only on officers who were recently killed at the time, but it gradually expanded to include officers killed in the line of duty dating as far back as 1791.

The ODMP claims to be accessed by over 250,000 unique visitors per month. Its research staff are volunteers managed by a lieutenant from the New York City Police Department. The organization has uncovered hundreds of "forgotten" line-of-duty deaths and has assisted in ensuring those officers are properly recognized on appropriate police memorials.

Canada and Australia added their own pages in 1997, followed by Central Europe and New Zealand in 1998.

In 2000, the ODMP was granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. The operation of the site is paid for through private contributions, as well as from the proceeds from a gift shop selling T-shirts, bumper stickers, and other items. The site is no longer advertising-free as it had been in the past.

In 2007, the ODMP partnered with SharedBook Inc. to create The Officer Down Memorial Book, for sale from the gift shop.

In 2010, the ODMP became funded in part through two $150,000 grants awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs of the U.S. Department of Justice. One of those grants was to provide resources on benefits available to survivors of fallen law enforcement officers but this feature is no longer offered to its visitors.

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