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.