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 |
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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.