The Sheriff of Monroe County in his duties as the enforcement arm of the Courts, carried out a total of seven executions by hanging before NYS took over Capital Punishment in 1888. Although carried out of the public view, they were such an event that the Militia had to be called out for crowd control. Over these many decades, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) has become one of the premier law enforcement and corrections agencies in the State of New York and of the Nation. The MCSO is both accredited by the State of New York and nationally by CALEA. For more information on the history of the MCSO, copies of The History of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office are available for sale for $10.00 plus $2.50 shipping (all proceeds benefit the Sheriff's Awards Program). Contact: Historian Todd Allen, Monroe County Sheriff's Office, 130 Plymouth Ave., South, Rochester, New York 14614. Since the establishment of the Monroe County Sheriff Office, 8 officers have died in the line of duty.