Table 86
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Region by Type of Weapon, 2013
| Region | Total |
Total firearms |
Handgun | Rifle | Shotgun |
Type of firearm not reported |
Knife or other cutting instrument |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | 78 | 62 | 43 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 16 |
| Northeast | 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Midwest | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| South | 39 | 33 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
| West | 21 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
- 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.
