Table 75
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Population Group/Agency Type by Type of Assignment, 2013
| Population group/agency type | Total |
2-Officer vehicle |
1-Officer vehicle | Foot patrol | Other1 |
Off duty |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | ||||
| Number of victim officers | 78 | 14 | 13 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 3 |
| Group I (cities 250,000 and over) | 21 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Group II (cities 100,000–249,999) | 15 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Group III (cities 50,000–99,999) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Group V (cities 10,000–24,999) | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Group VI (cities under 10,000) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Metropolitan counties | 12 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Nonmetropolitan counties | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| State agencies | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
- 1Includes detectives, officers on special assignments, undercover officers, and officers on other types of assignments not listed.
- NOTE: Assault with injury data in this table reflects only a subset of those incidents reported to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. For more information in reference to this data collection, see Detailed Assault Data.
