Rowan County Sheriff's Office

Rowan County Sheriff's Office has lost 8 officers across 127 years on record. 3 — 37.5% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 25.2 percentage points below the national average of 62.7% for Sheriff's Offices.

3 officers were lost to accidents — 37.5% of this agency's fallen, compared to 26.4% nationally for Sheriff's Offices. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 3 officers who died did so in an accident.