Table 111
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Number of Victim Officers Wearing Uniform or Other Law Enforcement Identification Evident, 2011–2015
Victim officer | Other identification | Total | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 532 | 110 | 105 | 126 | 106 | 85 |
Wearing uniform | Total | 479 | 94 | 89 | 116 | 101 | 79 |
Not in uniform | Total | 50 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 5 |
Attire with law enforcement markings | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Badge | 8 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
Ballistic shield | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Firearm | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Marked patrol unit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Police-issued radio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Previous law enforcement contact with offender(s) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Verbal | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Vest (ballistic/raid/tactical/etc.) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Mutiple forms of identification | 30 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |
None | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
Not reported | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Wearing uniform not reported | Total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
- 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.