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Table 3

Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed

Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Location of Incident, 2017

Conditions Total Commercial Government Public space1 Residential Other
Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported
Number of victim officers Total 46 3 4 0 2 1 0 0 25 0 2 7 0 0 2 0
Lighting Artificial 13 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Dark 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Dawn 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Daylight 19 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 9 0 0 6 0 0 1 0
Dusk 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Weather/environmental Blizzard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blowing dirt/sand/soil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clear 32 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 19 0 0 6 0 0 2 0
Cloudy 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Flooding 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fog/smog/smoke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hurricane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Severe crosswinds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sleet/hail 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Snow 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tornado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not applicable (indoors) 7 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
  • 1Examples of public space include, but are not limited to, alleys, highways, lakes, parks, rivers, roads, and sidewalks.