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Table 92

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

Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Location of Incident, 2013–20171

Conditions Total Commercial Government Public space2 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 555 27 56 4 5 3 0 4 200 0 86 159 3 0 8 0
Lighting Artificial 110 19 11 0 4 1 0 2 21 0 34 18 0 0 0 0
Dark 177 1 17 0 0 0 0 0 81 0 23 53 0 0 2 0
Dawn 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Daylight 222 7 26 4 1 2 0 2 76 0 22 73 3 0 6 0
Dusk 31 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 3 13 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 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 335 0 51 0 0 3 0 0 154 0 0 120 0 0 7 0
Cloudy 42 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 18 0 0 1 0
Flooding 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fog/smog/smoke 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 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 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 7 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 11 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 0
Tornado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Not reported 29 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 9 1 0 0 0
Not applicable (indoors) 122 27 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 86 0 0 0 0 0
  • 1Ten years of data for the topics presented in this table are not available at this time. A 10-year table is expected to be available for the publication of 2020 data.
  • 2Examples 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.