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Table 81

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

Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Location of Incident, 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 83 5 6 0 3 27 0 10 28 3 0 1 0
Lighting Artificial 14 4 2 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Dark 26 1 1 0 0 9 0 5 9 1 0 0 0
Dawn/dusk 9 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 0 0 0 0
Daylight 32 0 3 0 0 9 0 2 15 2 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 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Weather/environmental Clear 49 0 5 0 0 20 0 0 23 0 0 1 0
Cloudy/partly cloudy 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Rain 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Snow 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0
Not reported 7 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 0
Not applicable (indoors) 18 5 0 0 3 0 0 10 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.