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Table 80

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

Population Group/Agency Type, 2011–2015

Population group/agency type Total 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Number of victim officers 532 110 105 126 106 85
Group I (cities 250,000 and over) 159 32 25 46 25 31
Group II (cities 100,000–249,999) 72 14 9 24 15 10
Group III (cities 50,000–99,999) 48 10 18 9 8 3
Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999) 39 7 10 4 10 8
Group V (cities 10,000–24,999) 28 6 6 4 7 5
Group VI (cities under 10,000) 41 11 7 3 10 10
Metropolitan counties 74 10 17 19 17 11
Nonmetropolitan counties 34 9 7 11 4 3
State agencies 26 6 6 5 7 2
Federal agencies 8 4 0 1 1 2
Puerto Rico and other outlying areas 3 1 0 0 2 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.