Table 104
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Circumstance at Scene of Incident by Type of Assignment, 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 | 83 | 7 | 10 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 29 | 1 |
| Disturbance call | Total | 17 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Disturbance (bar fight, person with firearm, etc.) | 11 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Domestic disturbance (family quarrel, etc.) | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Arrest situation | Total | 10 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Burglary in progress/pursuing burglary suspect | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Robbery in progress/pursuing robbery suspect | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Drug-related matter | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Attempting other arrest | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Civil disorder (mass disobedience, riot, etc.) | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Handling, transporting, custody of prisoner | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Investigating suspicious person/circumstance | Total | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Ambush (entrapment/premeditation) | Total | 13 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Unprovoked attack | Total | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Investigative activity (surveillance, search, interview, etc.) | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Handling person with mental illness | Total | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Traffic pursuit/stop | Total | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Felony vehicle stop | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Traffic violation stop | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tactical situation (barricaded offender, hostage taking, high-risk entry, etc.) | Total | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 0 |
- 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.
