Table 73
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Department, Agency, and Office by Extent of Injury of Victim Officer, 2014 –20181
Department/Agency | Agency/Office | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | ||||||||||
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Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 0 | 170 | 867 | 1 | 176 | 814 | 1 | 324 | 1,122 | 0 | 426 | 1,358 | 2 | 374 | 1,392 |
U.S. Capitol Police | Total | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 15 |
U.S. Department of Agriculture2 | Total | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||||||||||
U.S. Forest Service, Law Enforcement and Investigations |
0 | 0 | 8 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Department of Defense3 | Total | 0 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 5 | 11 | |||||||||
National Security Agency | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
Pentagon Force Protection Agency | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
U.S. Department of the Army | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | ||||||||||
U.S. Department of the Navy4 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Commander, Navy Installations Command | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services2 | Total | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||||
National Institutes of Health Police | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
Total | 0 | 39 | 123 | 0 | 36 | 103 | 0 | 146 | 357 | 0 | 225 | 462 | 0 | 219 | 532 |
Federal Protective Service2 | 0 | 20 | 2 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) | 0 | 18 | 109 | 0 | 24 | 81 | 0 | 139 | 345 | 0 | 137 | 369 | 0 | 162 | 472 | |
CBP, Air and Marine Operations | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 27 | |
CBP, Office of Field Operations | 0 | 18 | 98 | 0 | 24 | 62 | 0 | 7 | 61 | 0 | 29 | 33 | 0 | 24 | 51 | |
CBP, U.S. Border Patrol5,6 | 0 | 132 | 265 | 0 | 103 | 329 | 0 | 135 | 394 | |||||||
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 83 | 0 | 30 | 45 | |
U.S. Secret Service | 0 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 13 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
Total | 0 | 84 | 523 | 0 | 85 | 485 | 0 | 117 | 504 | 0 | 124 | 600 | 0 | 83 | 606 |
Bureau of Indian Affairs | 0 | 69 | 481 | 0 | 74 | 431 | 0 | 86 | 418 | 0 | 105 | 504 | 0 | 72 | 439 | |
Bureau of Land Management | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
National Park Service | 0 | 13 | 34 | 0 | 7 | 47 | 0 | 31 | 76 | 0 | 15 | 83 | 0 | 8 | 159 | |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Refuge Law Enforcement |
0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
U.S. Department of Justice | Total | 0 | 46 | 211 | 1 | 49 | 214 | 1 | 57 | 240 | 0 | 66 | 267 | 2 | 52 | 217 |
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives |
0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 11 | |
Federal Bureau of Investigation | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 8 | |
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 12 | |
U.S. Marshals Service | 0 | 38 | 192 | 1 | 38 | 177 | 1 | 50 | 215 | 0 | 61 | 228 | 2 | 39 | 186 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury |
Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Internal Revenue Service8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Mint Police2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Postal Service | Total | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
U.S. Postal Inspection Service (including the U.S. Postal Police) |
0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
- 1This table includes federal agencies that indicated one or more of their law enforcement officers were killed or assaulted. To view a full list of participating federal agencies, refer to Table 71.
- 2For 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, data were not reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Protective Service, and the U.S. Mint Police.
- 3For 2014, 2015, and 2016, data were not reported by the U.S. Department of Defense.
- 4For 2017, data reported by the U.S. Department of the Navy were aggregated and not submitted separately.
- 5For 2014, extent of injury data for 373 victim officers were not reported by the CBP, U.S. Border Patrol.
- 6For 2015, extent of injury data for 349 victim officers were not reported by the CBP, U.S. Border Patrol.
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7For 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 2014, 2015, and 2016 data to 2017 and 2018 data. - 8For 2018, data were not reported by the Internal Revenue Service.