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Lieutenant

David Allen Bowen

Des Moines Police Department — Des Moines, IA

Veteran → Illness

End of Watch September 29, 2008

Age 53

Tour of Duty 31 yrs

Badge 4629

The Vigil Panel 157 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 26

Incident

Lieutenant David Bowen suffered a fatal stroke following a call-out to supervise a fatal vehicle crash involving a pedestrian.

The morning following the investigation he was assigned to supervise officers detailed to a concert at the Blank Park Zoo. Shortly after his shift began to display symptoms of a stroke and collapsed. He was flown to the University of Iowa Hospital where he died two days later.

Lieutenant Bowen was a U.S. Army veteran and had served with the Des Moines Police Department for 31 years.

Rest In Peace always and know that your service and sacrifice are always remembered.

Detective Cpl/3 Steven Rizzo Delaware State Police (Retired) September 29th, 2020

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Lieutenant Bowen gave the Des Moines Police Department 31 years.
Thank you for your service to the Des Moines community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Des Moines Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Des Moines, Polk County, IA

Platform Identity dmpd.polk.ia.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 29, 2008

Tour of Duty 31 yrs

Age 53

Badge Number 4629

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Military Service

David Allen Bowen served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Lieutenant David Allen Bowen is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.

In IA, 12 of 226 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 5.3% of this state's fallen. That is 5.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Des Moines Police Department, 2 of 27 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 7.4% of this agency's fallen.

Des Moines Police Department

of 27 officers

7.4% Illness

IA — Statewide

of 226 officers

5.3% Illness

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Illness