Table 103
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Circumstance at Scene of Incident by Region, 2010–2014
| Circumstance | Total | Northeast | Midwest | South | West |
Puerto Rico and Other Outlying Areas |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 533 | 72 | 90 | 224 | 144 | 3 |
| Disturbance call | Total | 122 | 13 | 19 | 59 | 31 | 0 |
| Disturbance (bar fight, person with firearm, etc.) | 80 | 9 | 13 | 41 | 17 | 0 | |
| Domestic disturbance (family quarrel, etc.) | 42 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 0 | |
| Arrest situation | Total | 76 | 11 | 13 | 36 | 15 | 1 |
| Burglary in progress/pursuing burglary suspect | 14 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| Robbery in progress/pursuing robbery suspect | 20 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | |
| Drug-related matter | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |
| Attempting other arrest | 33 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 0 | |
| Civil disorder (mass disobedience, riot, etc.) | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Handling, transporting, custody of prisoner | Total | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Investigating suspicious person/circumstance | Total | 87 | 14 | 16 | 31 | 26 | 0 |
| Ambush (entrapment/premeditation) | Total | 11 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Unprovoked attack | Total | 15 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| Investigative activity (surveillance, search, interview, etc.) | Total | 41 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 10 | 2 |
| Handling person with mental illness | Total | 42 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 0 |
| Traffic pursuit/stop | Total | 59 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 17 | 0 |
| Felony vehicle stop | 17 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | |
| Traffic violation stop | 42 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 11 | 0 | |
| Tactical situation (barricaded offender, hostage taking, high-risk entry, etc.) | Total | 76 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 26 | 0 |
- 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.
