Table 114
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Circumstance at Scene of Incident by Type of Weapon, 2010–2014
| Circumstance | Total |
Total firearms |
Handgun | Rifle | Shotgun |
Type of firearm not reported |
Knife or other cutting instrument |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 533 | 385 | 284 | 60 | 38 | 3 | 148 |
| Disturbance call | Total | 122 | 69 | 42 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 53 |
| Disturbance (bar fight, person with firearm, etc.) | 80 | 43 | 21 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 37 | |
| Domestic disturbance (family quarrel, etc.) | 42 | 26 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 16 | |
| Arrest situation | Total | 76 | 58 | 50 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 |
| Burglary in progress/pursuing burglary suspect | 14 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Robbery in progress/pursuing robbery suspect | 20 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Drug-related matter | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Attempting other arrest | 33 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | |
| Civil disorder (mass disobedience, riot, etc.) | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Handling, transporting, custody of prisoner | Total | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Investigating suspicious person/circumstance | Total | 87 | 67 | 57 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 20 |
| Ambush (entrapment/premeditation) | Total | 11 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unprovoked attack | Total | 15 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Investigative activity (surveillance, search, interview, etc.) | Total | 41 | 30 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| Handling person with mental illness | Total | 42 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 29 |
| Traffic pursuit/stop | Total | 59 | 51 | 46 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Felony vehicle stop | 17 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Traffic violation stop | 42 | 35 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | |
| Tactical situation (barricaded offender, hostage taking, high-risk entry, etc.) | Total | 76 | 71 | 50 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 5 |
- 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.
