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Table 93

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments

Victim Officer's Use of Weapon During Incident, 2010–2014

Victim officer Total 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Number of victim officers 533 104 110 105 126 88
Fired own weapon 222 41 50 42 57 32
Attempted to use own weapon 77 18 14 15 18 12
Did not use or attempt to use own weapon 217 41 45 45 46 40
Use of weapon not reported 17 4 1 3 5 4
  • 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.