Table 30
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Region by Type of Weapon, 2004–2013
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 | 511 | 474 | 345 | 87 | 40 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 0 |
Northeast | 58 | 56 | 40 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Midwest | 90 | 84 | 68 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
South | 238 | 216 | 153 | 40 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 0 |
West | 104 | 97 | 65 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Puerto Rico and other outlying areas | 21 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |