Table 111
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Number of Victim Officers Wearing Uniform or Other Law Enforcement Identification Evident, 2012–2016
Victim officer | Other identification | Total | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 522 | 105 | 126 | 106 | 102 | 83 |
Wearing uniform | Total | 476 | 89 | 116 | 101 | 95 | 75 |
Not in uniform | Total | 40 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
Attire with law enforcement markings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Badge | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Ballistic shield | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Firearm | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Marked patrol unit | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Police-issued radio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Previous law enforcement contact with offender(s) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Verbal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Vest (ballistic/raid/tactical/etc.) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Mutiple forms of identification | 25 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
None | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
Not reported | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Wearing uniform not reported | Total | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
- 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.