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Table 116

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

Type of Weapon, 2008–2017

Type of weapon Total 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Number of victim officers 1,094 114 106 104 110 105 126 106 102 119 102
Total firearms 800 71 79 75 76 73 99 71 76 103 77
Handgun 555 55 56 52 52 55 72 53 50 64 46
Rifle 142 12 9 16 10 9 11 9 19 27 20
Shotgun 71 4 12 7 11 4 9 7 3 8 6
Multiple firearms used by offender(s) 1 26 — — — 3 5 5 1 4 3 5
Type of firearm not reported 6 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0
Knife/other cutting instrument 2 99 43 27 29 — — — — — — —
Knife2 126 — — — 23 21 17 17 17 14 17
Other cutting instrument 2 66 — — — 9 10 10 18 9 2 8
Multiple types of weapons used by offender(s)3, 4 3 — — — 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
Number of victim officers who had prior knowledge that a weapon might be involved in the incident 491 48 49 41 50 45 65 44 48 59 42
  • 1Beginning in 2011, a new option was added: "Multiple firearms used by offender(s)."
  • 2For 2008, 2009, and 2010, the type of weapon categories "Knife" and "Other cutting instrument" were combined.
  • 3Beginning in 2011, a new option was added: "Multiple types of weapons used by offender(s)."
  • 4The offender(s) used multiple weapons during the incident, such as a firearm, knife, and/or other cutting instrument.
  • 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.