Knoxville Police Department

Knoxville Police Department has lost 17 officers across 157 years on record. 12 — 70.6% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 12.5 percentage points above the national average of 58.1% for Police Departments — reflecting the particular danger faced by officers in this jurisdiction.

4 officers were lost to accidents — 23.5% 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.