Table 80
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Region and Geographic Division, 2017
| Area | Total |
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 | 60,211 | 10.1 | 17,476 | 2.9 | 12,198 | 269,607,605 | 596,604 |
| NORTHEAST | 8,134 | 5.6 | 2,723 | 1.9 | 2,941 | 53,854,793 | 144,492 |
| New England | 3,786 | 12.6 | 1,152 | 3.8 | 818 | 14,110,597 | 30,046 |
| Middle Atlantic | 4,348 | 3.8 | 1,571 | 1.4 | 2,123 | 39,744,196 | 114,446 |
| MIDWEST | 7,045 | 8.6 | 2,284 | 2.8 | 2,837 | 41,414,248 | 81,923 |
| East North Central | 2,789 | 6.0 | 1,069 | 2.3 | 1,394 | 23,926,032 | 46,670 |
| West North Central | 4,256 | 12.1 | 1,215 | 3.4 | 1,443 | 17,488,216 | 35,253 |
| SOUTH | 24,633 | 10.8 | 6,507 | 2.9 | 4,445 | 98,899,933 | 227,485 |
| South Atlantic | 14,447 | 10.8 | 3,238 | 2.4 | 2,137 | 55,422,893 | 133,682 |
| East South Central | 4,096 | 13.4 | 1,235 | 4.0 | 943 | 13,823,590 | 30,495 |
| West South Central | 6,090 | 9.6 | 2,034 | 3.2 | 1,365 | 29,653,450 | 63,308 |
| WEST | 20,399 | 14.3 | 5,962 | 4.2 | 1,975 | 75,438,631 | 142,704 |
| Mountain | 6,557 | 14.8 | 2,087 | 4.7 | 839 | 22,440,061 | 44,430 |
| Pacific | 13,842 | 14.1 | 3,875 | 3.9 | 1,136 | 52,998,570 | 98,274 |
