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Table 87

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

Month of Incident, 2011–2015

Month Total 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Number of victim officers 532 110 105 126 106 85
January 59 11 12 15 10 11
February 46 10 8 12 8 8
March 58 12 12 11 11 12
April 43 9 9 8 9 8
May 32 10 9 1 7 5
June 35 11 6 10 7 1
July 42 10 10 6 8 8
August 46 6 12 12 9 7
September 40 4 7 14 7 8
October 52 7 5 26 9 5
November 39 7 6 7 9 10
December 40 13 9 4 12 2
  • 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.