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Table 126

Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted

Extent of Injury of Victim Officer by Type of Weapon, 2012–2016

Year Extent of injury Total Firearm Knife or
other cutting
instrument 		Bomb Blunt
instrument 		Personal
weapons 		Vehicle Other
Number of victim officers Total 7,829 470 160 17 546 3,138 515 2,983
2012 Total 1,858 104 33 16 38 733 104 830
Killed 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 206 7 3 0 5 125 7 59
Not injured 1,096 71 30 1 22 414 47 511
Extent of injury not reported1 555 25 0 15 11 194 50 260
20132 Total 1,774 88 27 1 198 626 121 713
Killed3 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 1
Injured 292 10 4 0 10 198 17 53
Not injured 1,478 76 22 1 188 428 104 659
2014 Total 1,410 77 27 0 149 610 102 445
Killed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 170 10 3 0 4 110 12 31
Not injured 867 50 24 0 15 324 52 402
Extent of injury not reported1 373 17 0 0 130 176 38 12
2015 Total 1,340 97 33 0 135 547 89 439
Killed 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 176 14 7 0 1 103 13 38
Not injured 814 63 26 0 0 300 46 379
Extent of injury not reported1 349 19 0 0 134 144 30 22
2016 Total 1,447 104 40 0 26 622 99 556
Killed 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 324 10 3 0 4 201 22 84
Not injured 1,122 93 37 0 22 421 77 472
  • 1For 2012, 2014, and 2015, extent of injury data were not reported by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Border Patrol.
  • 2For 2013, data were not reported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
  • 3For 2013, detailed incident data were not reported by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Border Patrol, for 2 killed victim officers, by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for 1 killed victim officer, and by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for 1 killed victim officer; therefore, these 4 deaths were not represented in the feloniously killed section of this publication.