Table 29
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Region by Type of Weapon, 2013
Region | Total |
Total firearms |
Handgun | Rifle | Shotgun |
Type of firearm not reported |
Knife or other cutting instrument |
Bomb |
Blunt instrument |
Personal weapons |
Vehicle | Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | 27 | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Northeast | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Midwest | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South | 15 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
West | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Puerto Rico and other outlying areas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |