Nashville City Police Department

Nashville City Police Department has lost 22 officers across 69 years on record. 16 — 72.7% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 14.6 percentage points above the national average of 58.1% for Police Departments — reflecting the particular danger faced by officers in this jurisdiction.

6 officers were lost to accidents — 27.3% of this agency's fallen, compared to 28.4% nationally for Police Departments. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 4 officers who died did so in an accident.