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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.