Table 74

Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted

Extent of Injury of Victim Officer by Type of Weapon, 2014–2018

Year	Extent of injury	Total	Firearm	Knife or other cutting instrument	Blunt instrument	Personal weapons	Vehicle	Other
Number of victim officers	Total	7,749	527	176	343	3,252	538	2,913
2014^1,2,3	Total	1,410	77	27	149	610	102	445
	Killed	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Injured	170	10	3	4	110	12	31
	Not injured	867	50	24	15	324	52	402
	Extent of injury not reported ⁴	373	17	0	130	176	38	12
2015^1,2,3	Total	1,340	97	33	135	547	89	439
	Killed	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Injured	176	14	7	1	103	13	38
	Not injured	814	63	26	0	300	46	379
	Extent of injury not reported ⁴	349	19	0	134	144	30	22
2016^1,2,3	Total	1,447	104	40	26	622	99	556
	Killed	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Injured	324	10	3	4	201	22	84
	Not injured	1,122	93	37	22	421	77	472
2017³	Total	1,784	116	19	21	676	142	810
	Killed	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Injured	426	8	1	7	248	30	132
	Not injured	1,358	108	18	14	428	112	678
2018⁵	Total	1,768	133	57	12	797	106	663
	Killed	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
	Injured	374	11	4	4	246	26	83
	Not injured	1,392	120	53	8	551	80	580

¹For 2014, 2015, and 2016, data were not reported by the U.S. Department of Defense.
²For 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.
³For 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.
⁴For 2014 and 2015, extent of injury data were not reported by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol.
⁵For 2018, data were not reported by the Internal Revenue Service.

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