Table 105
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Circumstance at Scene of Incident by Type of Assignment, 2012–2016
| Circumstance | Total |
2-Officer vehicle |
1-Officer vehicle | Foot patrol | Other1 |
Off duty |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | |||||
| Number of victim officers | Total | 522 | 72 | 75 | 210 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 137 | 13 |
| Disturbance call | Total | 119 | 16 | 16 | 75 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
| Disturbance (bar fight, person with firearm, etc.) | 69 | 10 | 7 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| Domestic disturbance (family quarrel, etc.) | 50 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Arrest situation | Total | 65 | 13 | 9 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 3 |
| Burglary in progress/pursuing burglary suspect | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Robbery in progress/pursuing robbery suspect | 15 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Drug-related matter | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
| Attempting other arrest | 31 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | |
| Civil disorder (mass disobedience, riot, etc.) | Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Handling, transporting, custody of prisoner | Total | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Investigating suspicious person/circumstance | Total | 78 | 15 | 20 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 2 |
| Ambush (entrapment/premeditation) | Total | 26 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| Unprovoked attack | Total | 15 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Investigative activity (surveillance, search, interview, etc.) | Total | 34 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 |
| Handling person with mental illness | Total | 39 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Traffic pursuit/stop | Total | 47 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Felony vehicle stop | 14 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Traffic violation stop | 33 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Tactical situation (barricaded offender, hostage taking, high-risk entry, etc.) | Total | 93 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 1 |
- 1Includes detectives, officers on special assignments, undercover officers, and officers on other types of assignments not listed.
- 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.
