Table 70
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Region and Geographic Division, 2016
| Area | Total1 |
Rate per 100 officers |
Assaults with injury |
Rate per 100 officers |
Number of reporting agencies |
Population covered |
Number of officers employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | 57,180 | 9.8 | 16,535 | 2.8 | 12,421 | 268,157,300 | 586,446 |
| NORTHEAST | 8,084 | 5.7 | 2,605 | 1.8 | 2,875 | 53,401,487 | 142,060 |
| New England | 3,645 | 12.2 | 1,049 | 3.5 | 912 | 13,978,062 | 29,916 |
| Middle Atlantic | 4,439 | 4.0 | 1,556 | 1.4 | 1,963 | 39,423,425 | 112,144 |
| MIDWEST | 7,277 | 8.9 | 2,290 | 2.8 | 2,930 | 40,879,561 | 81,863 |
| East North Central | 3,187 | 7.0 | 1,169 | 2.5 | 1,367 | 22,958,643 | 45,846 |
| West North Central | 4,090 | 11.4 | 1,121 | 3.1 | 1,563 | 17,920,918 | 36,017 |
| SOUTH | 23,731 | 10.5 | 6,071 | 2.7 | 4,693 | 100,584,785 | 225,298 |
| South Atlantic | 14,002 | 11.1 | 3,106 | 2.5 | 2,250 | 54,297,666 | 125,972 |
| East South Central | 2,926 | 10.5 | 835 | 3.0 | 819 | 12,203,931 | 27,878 |
| West South Central | 6,803 | 9.5 | 2,130 | 3.0 | 1,624 | 34,083,188 | 71,448 |
| WEST | 18,088 | 13.2 | 5,569 | 4.1 | 1,923 | 73,291,467 | 137,225 |
| Mountain | 5,507 | 12.8 | 1,810 | 4.2 | 803 | 21,981,198 | 42,908 |
| Pacific | 12,581 | 13.3 | 3,759 | 4.0 | 1,120 | 51,310,269 | 94,317 |
