Table 75
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Department by Type of Weapon, 2013–2017
Year | Department | Total | Firearm |
Knife or other cutting instrument |
Bomb |
Blunt instrument |
Personal weapons |
Vehicle | Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | Total | 7,755 | 482 | 146 | 1 | 529 | 3,081 | 553 | 2,963 |
20131 | Total | 1,774 | 88 | 27 | 1 | 198 | 626 | 121 | 713 |
U.S. Capitol Police | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security1 | 590 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 190 | 282 | 41 | 44 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | 875 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 194 | 35 | 616 | |
U.S. Department of Justice | 293 | 43 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 150 | 44 | 39 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Postal Inspection Service | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
20142 | Total | 1,410 | 77 | 27 | 0 | 149 | 610 | 102 | 445 |
U.S. Capitol Police | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security2 | 535 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 131 | 288 | 65 | 33 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | 607 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 187 | 9 | 380 | |
U.S. Department of Justice | 257 | 47 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 132 | 28 | 25 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Postal Inspection Service | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
20152 | Total | 1,340 | 97 | 33 | 0 | 135 | 547 | 89 | 439 |
U.S. Capitol Police | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security2 | 488 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 134 | 213 | 56 | 55 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | 570 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 204 | 6 | 338 | |
U.S. Department of Justice | 264 | 54 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 130 | 25 | 31 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
U.S. Postal Inspection Service | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
20162 | Total | 1,447 | 104 | 40 | 0 | 26 | 622 | 99 | 556 |
U.S. Capitol Police | 25 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security2 | 503 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 210 | 57 | 200 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | 621 | 24 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 241 | 19 | 314 | |
U.S. Department of Justice | 298 | 61 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 171 | 20 | 27 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Postal Inspection Service | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2017 | Total | 1,784 | 116 | 19 | 0 | 21 | 676 | 142 | 810 |
U.S. Capitol Police | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | |
U.S. Department of Defense | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security | 687 | 61 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 403 | 36 | 164 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | 724 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 265 | 62 | 373 | |
U.S. Department of Justice | 333 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 43 | 237 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Postal Inspection Service | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 1For 2013, data were not reported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- 2For 2014, 2015, and 2016, data requests to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were inadvertently received and addressed by entities within ICE that did not possess the appropriate resources to provide comprehensive and complete data; therefore, caution must be taken when comparing prior years' data to 2017 data.