Table 34
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Number of Victim Officers Wearing Uniform or Other Law Enforcement Identification Evident, 2013–20171
Victim officer | Type of uniform or other identification | Total | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | Total | 231 | 27 | 51 | 41 | 66 | 46 |
Wearing uniform | Total | 198 | 20 | 43 | 37 | 59 | 39 |
Patrol | 160 | 15 | 37 | 31 | 46 | 31 | |
Tactical | 21 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 | |
Utility | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |
Other type of uniform | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Not reported | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Not in uniform | Total | 31 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
Armband | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Badge displayed | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Raid jacket with law enforcement markings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Vest with law enforcement markings | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Mutiple forms of identification | 15 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
Other identification | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Not reported | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Wearing uniform not reported | Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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.