Cocke County Sheriff's Department

Cocke County Sheriff's Department has lost 9 officers across 96 years on record. 7 — 77.8% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 9.4 percentage points above the national average of 68.4% for Others — reflecting the particular danger faced by officers in this jurisdiction.

2 officers were lost to accidents — 22.2% of this agency's fallen, compared to 22.3% nationally for Others. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 5 officers who died did so in an accident.