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Table 81

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

Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Location of Incident, 2015

Conditions Total Commercial Government/
public 		Residential
Indoors Outside Location
not
reported 		Indoors Outside Indoors Outside
Number of victim officers Total 85 4 11 4 1 30 13 22
Lighting Artificial 17 1 6 0 1 2 4 3
Dark 17 0 0 0 0 11 3 3
Dawn/dusk 6 0 0 0 0 1 2 3
Daylight 45 3 5 4 0 16 4 13
Dim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Poor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Weather/environmental Clear 47 0 10 0 0 21 0 16
Cloudy/partly cloudy 11 0 0 0 0 7 0 4
Fog 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Rain 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Snow 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 1
Not reported 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Not applicable (indoors) 18 4 0 0 1 0 13 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.