Table 80
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Region and Geographic Division, 2018
| Area | Total |
Rate per 100 officers |
Assaults with injury |
Rate per 100 officers |
Number of reporting agencies |
Population covered |
Number of officers employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | 58,866 | 10.8 | 18,005 | 3.3 | 11,788 | 250,650,792 | 546,247 |
| NORTHEAST | 7,810 | 7.2 | 2,703 | 2.5 | 2,929 | 42,332,010 | 107,786 |
| New England | 3,757 | 12.6 | 1,119 | 3.7 | 808 | 14,075,566 | 29,896 |
| Middle Atlantic | 4,053 | 5.2 | 1,584 | 2.0 | 2,121 | 28,256,444 | 77,890 |
| MIDWEST | 7,394 | 8.8 | 2,318 | 2.8 | 2,842 | 40,205,408 | 83,980 |
| East North Central | 3,624 | 7.2 | 1,254 | 2.5 | 1,381 | 24,192,263 | 50,450 |
| West North Central | 3,770 | 11.2 | 1,064 | 3.2 | 1,461 | 16,013,145 | 33,530 |
| SOUTH | 23,092 | 10.6 | 6,738 | 3.1 | 4,202 | 95,351,581 | 217,528 |
| South Atlantic | 13,431 | 11.0 | 3,352 | 2.7 | 1,955 | 51,535,660 | 122,153 |
| East South Central | 3,551 | 11.7 | 1,179 | 3.9 | 933 | 13,368,746 | 30,421 |
| West South Central | 6,110 | 9.4 | 2,207 | 3.4 | 1,314 | 30,447,175 | 64,954 |
| WEST | 20,570 | 15.0 | 6,246 | 4.6 | 1,815 | 72,761,793 | 136,953 |
| Mountain | 6,375 | 16.2 | 2,164 | 5.5 | 733 | 20,890,122 | 39,323 |
| Pacific | 14,195 | 14.5 | 4,082 | 4.2 | 1,082 | 51,871,671 | 97,630 |
