Table 73
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Department and Agency by Extent of Injury of Victim Officer, 2013–2017
2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | ||||||||||||
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Department | Agency | Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Number of victim officers | Total | 4 | 292 | 1,478 | 0 | 170 | 867 | 1 | 176 | 814 | 1 | 324 | 1,122 | 0 | 426 | 1,358 |
U.S. Capitol Police | Total | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 9 | 7 |
U.S. Department of Defense1 | Total | 0 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||||||
Department of the Air Force | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Department of the Army | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Department of the Navy | 0 | 2 | 21 | |||||||||||||
National Security Agency | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
Pentagon Force Protection Agency | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Department of Homeland Security2,3,4,5,6 |
Total | 2 | 122 | 466 | 0 | 39 | 123 | 0 | 36 | 103 | 0 | 146 | 357 | 0 | 225 | 462 |
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)2,3,4 | 2 | 121 | 432 | 0 | 18 | 109 | 0 | 24 | 81 | 0 | 139 | 345 | 0 | 137 | 369 | |
CBP, Office of Air and Marine | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 7 | |
CBP, Office of Border Patrol2,3,4 | 2 | 98 | 368 | 0 | 132 | 265 | 0 | 103 | 329 | |||||||
CBP, Office of Field Operations | 0 | 23 | 37 | 0 | 18 | 98 | 0 | 24 | 62 | 0 | 7 | 61 | 0 | 29 | 33 | |
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement5,6 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 83 | ||||
U.S. Secret Service | 0 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 10 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior7 |
Total | 1 | 106 | 768 | 0 | 84 | 523 | 0 | 85 | 485 | 0 | 117 | 504 | 0 | 124 | 600 |
Bureau of Indian Affairs7 | 1 | 94 | 711 | 0 | 69 | 481 | 0 | 74 | 431 | 0 | 86 | 418 | 0 | 105 | 504 | |
Bureau of Land Management | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
National Park Service | 0 | 12 | 47 | 0 | 13 | 34 | 0 | 7 | 47 | 0 | 31 | 76 | 0 | 15 | 83 | |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 9 | |
FWS, Division of Refuge Law Enforcement | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 9 | |
FWS, Office of Law Enforcement | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Department of Justice8 | Total | 1 | 58 | 234 | 0 | 46 | 211 | 1 | 49 | 214 | 1 | 57 | 240 | 0 | 66 | 267 |
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives | 0 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |
Federal Bureau of Investigation | 0 | 11 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 12 | |
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | |
U.S. Marshals Service | 0 | 45 | 196 | 0 | 38 | 192 | 1 | 38 | 177 | 1 | 50 | 215 | 0 | 61 | 228 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury |
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Internal Revenue Service | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Postal Inspection Service | Total | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 1For 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, data were not reported by the U.S. Department of Defense.
- 2For 2013, detailed incident data were not reported by the CBP, Office of Border Patrol, for the 2 killed victim officers; therefore, the deaths were not represented in the feloniously killed section of this publication.
- 3For 2014, extent of injury data for 373 victim officers were not reported by the CBP, Office of Border Patrol.
- 4For 2015, extent of injury data for 349 victim officers were not reported by the CBP, Office of Border Patrol.
- 5For 2013, data were not reported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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6For 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. - 7For 2013, detailed incident data were not reported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the killed victim officer; therefore, the death was not represented in the feloniously killed section of this publication.
- 8For 2013, detailed incident data were not reported by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for the killed victim officer; therefore, the death was not represented in the feloniously killed section of this publication.