Table 110
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Region by Type of Weapon, 2014
Region | Total |
Total firearms |
Handgun | Rifle | Shotgun |
Type of firearm not reported |
Knife or other cutting instrument |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | 88 | 60 | 44 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 28 |
Northeast | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Midwest | 15 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
South | 35 | 26 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
West | 25 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
Puerto Rico and other outlying areas | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.