Table 34
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Number of Victim Officers Wearing Uniform or Other Law Enforcement Identification Evident, 2014–20181
Victim officer | Type of uniform or other identification | Total | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 259 | 51 | 41 | 66 | 46 | 55 |
Wearing uniform | Total | 221 | 43 | 37 | 59 | 39 | 43 |
Patrol | 182 | 37 | 31 | 46 | 31 | 37 | |
Tactical | 22 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | |
Utility | 10 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
Other type of uniform | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Unknown | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Not reported | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Not in uniform | Total | 34 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 10 |
Armband | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Badge displayed | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Raid jacket with law enforcement markings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Verbal identification | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Vest with law enforcement markings | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Mutiple forms of identification | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | |
Other identification | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
No identification | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Wearing uniform not reported | Total | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
- 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.