Table 4
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Location of Incident, 2013–20171
Conditions | Total | Commercial | Government | Public space2 | Residential | Other | |||||||||||
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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 |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 231 | 10 | 24 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 111 | 0 | 16 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Lighting | Artificial | 45 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dark | 58 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Dawn | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Daylight | 107 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 0 | 4 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Dusk | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not reported | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 157 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
Cloudy | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Flooding | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Fog/smog/smoke | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 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 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not applicable (indoors) | 33 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 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.