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Table 82

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

Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Location of Incident, 2011–2015

Conditions Total Commercial Government/
public 		Residential Location not reported
Indoors Outside Location
not
reported 		Indoors Outside Indoors Outside Location
not
reported 		Indoors Outside
Number of victim officers Total 532 23 58 5 11 195 95 142 2 0 1
Lighting Artificial 119 13 16 0 8 21 37 24 0 0 0
Dark 143 0 10 1 0 78 16 38 0 0 0
Dawn/dusk 44 1 4 0 0 15 8 16 0 0 0
Daylight 218 9 27 4 3 79 31 63 2 0 0
Dim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Poor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 8 0 1 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 1
Weather/environmental Bitter cold 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Clear 302 0 52 1 0 144 0 104 1 0 0
Cloudy/partly cloudy 41 0 3 0 0 22 0 16 0 0 0
Fog 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0
Rain 12 0 0 0 0 7 0 5 0 0 0
Sleet/snow 11 0 0 4 0 4 0 3 0 0 0
Not reported 32 0 3 0 0 16 0 12 0 0 1
Not applicable (indoors) 130 23 0 0 11 0 95 0 1 0 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.