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Table 91

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms, Knives, or Other Cutting Instruments

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 102 7 11 0 2 0 0 1 36 0 22 19 0 0 4 0
Lighting Artificial 21 7 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 8 3 0 0 0 0
Dark 37 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 6 9 0 0 2 0
Dawn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Daylight 40 0 7 0 1 0 0 1 15 0 8 6 0 0 2 0
Dusk 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 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 0 0 0 1 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 61 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 31 0 0 16 0 0 4 0
Cloudy 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 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 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Not reported 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not applicable (indoors) 32 7 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0
  • 1Examples of public space include, but are not limited to, alleys, highways, lakes, parks, rivers, roads, and sidewalks.
  • NOTE: Assault with injury data in this table reflect only a subset of those incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. For more information about this data collection, see Detailed Assault Data.