Table 97
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Population Group/Agency Type by Type of Assignment, 2010–2014
Population group/agency type | Total |
2-Officer vehicle |
1-Officer vehicle | Foot patrol | Other1 |
Off duty |
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Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | ||||
Number of victim officers | 533 | 80 | 95 | 215 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 108 | 20 |
Group I (cities 250,000 and over) | 160 | 41 | 25 | 43 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 11 |
Group II (cities 100,000–249,999) | 65 | 9 | 11 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 2 |
Group III (cities 50,000–99,999) | 53 | 9 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 1 |
Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999) | 36 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
Group V (cities 10,000–24,999) | 28 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Group VI (cities under 10,000) | 33 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Metropolitan counties | 89 | 7 | 14 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 2 |
Nonmetropolitan counties | 35 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
State agencies | 25 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Federal agencies | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Puerto Rico and other outlying areas | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
- 1Includes detectives, officers on special assignments, undercover officers, and officers on other types of assignments not listed.
- 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.