Table 71
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Population Group, 2016
Population group | Total |
Rate per 100 officers |
Assaults with injury |
Rate per 100 officers |
Number of reporting agencies |
Population covered |
Number of officers employed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | 57,180 | 9.8 | 16,535 | 2.8 | 12,421 | 268,157,300 | 586,446 |
Group I (cities 250,000 and over) | 14,962 | 10.9 | 3,906 | 2.8 | 75 | 54,594,496 | 137,084 |
Group II (cities 100,000–249,999) | 7,114 | 15.2 | 2,218 | 4.8 | 203 | 30,217,079 | 46,691 |
Group III (cities 50,000–99,999) | 6,752 | 14.8 | 2,115 | 4.6 | 446 | 31,061,015 | 45,618 |
Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999) | 5,327 | 12.6 | 1,597 | 3.8 | 750 | 26,186,394 | 42,254 |
Group V (cities 10,000–24,999) | 4,305 | 10.0 | 1,208 | 2.8 | 1,498 | 23,893,239 | 43,186 |
Group VI (cities under 10,000)1 | 4,205 | 6.0 | 1,304 | 1.8 | 6,068 | 19,068,388 | 70,544 |
Metropolitan counties1 | 11,846 | 7.7 | 3,378 | 2.2 | 1,444 | 62,288,979 | 153,998 |
Nonmetropolitan counties1 | 2,669 | 5.7 | 809 | 1.7 | 1,937 | 20,847,710 | 47,071 |
- 1Includes universities and colleges, state police agencies, and/or other agencies to which no population is attributed.