Table 84
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Day of Incident, 2012–2016
Day | Total | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | 522 | 105 | 126 | 106 | 102 | 83 |
Sunday | 68 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 14 |
Monday | 64 | 11 | 14 | 20 | 12 | 7 |
Tuesday | 63 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 7 |
Wednesday | 71 | 21 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 8 |
Thursday | 85 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 22 | 16 |
Friday | 93 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 16 |
Saturday | 78 | 7 | 24 | 18 | 14 | 15 |
- 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.