Table 112
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Circumstance at Scene of Incident by Type of Weapon, 2014
| Circumstance | Total |
Total firearms |
Handgun | Rifle | Shotgun |
Type of firearm not reported |
Knife or other cutting instrument |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 88 | 60 | 44 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 28 |
| Disturbance call | Total | 23 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| Disturbance (bar fight, person with firearm, etc.) | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | |
| Domestic disturbance (family quarrel, etc.) | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Arrest situation | Total | 11 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Burglary in progress/pursuing burglary suspect | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Robbery in progress/pursuing robbery suspect | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drug-related matter | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Attempting other arrest | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Civil disorder (mass disobedience, riot, etc.) | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Handling, transporting, custody of prisoner | Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Investigating suspicious person/circumstance | Total | 17 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Ambush (entrapment/premeditation) | Total | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unprovoked attack | Total | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Investigative activity (surveillance, search, interview, etc.) | Total | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Handling person with mental illness | Total | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Traffic pursuit/stop | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Felony vehicle stop | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Traffic violation stop | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tactical situation (barricaded offender, hostage taking, high-risk entry, etc.) | Total | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 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.
