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Table 82

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments

Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Location of Incident, 2012–2016

Conditions Total Commercial Government/
public 		Residential Not
reported
Indoors Outside Location
not
reported 		Indoors Outside Location
not
reported 		Indoors Outside Location
not
reported 		Indoors Outside Location
not
reported
Number of victim officers Total 522 23 50 5 11 186 0 87 154 5 0 1 0
Lighting Artificial 113 13 15 0 10 23 0 34 18 0 0 0 0
Dark 146 1 9 1 0 70 0 19 45 1 0 0 0
Dawn/dusk 46 1 3 0 0 17 0 7 18 0 0 0 0
Daylight 210 8 23 4 1 73 0 25 71 4 0 1 0
Dim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Poor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 7 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
Weather/environmental Bitter cold 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clear 302 0 45 1 0 136 0 0 118 1 0 1 0
Cloudy/partly cloudy 43 0 3 0 0 23 0 0 17 0 0 0 0
Fog 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Rain 10 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
Snow 12 0 0 4 0 3 0 0 3 2 0 0 0
Not reported 30 0 2 0 0 15 0 0 11 2 0 0 0
Not applicable (indoors) 121 23 0 0 11 0 0 87 0 0 0 0 0
  • 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.