Table 116

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms, Knives, or Other Cutting Instruments

Type of Weapon, 2009–2018

Type of weapon	Total	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Number of victim officers	1,062	106	104	110	105	126	106	102	119	103	81
Total firearms	786	79	75	76	73	99	71	76	103	78	56
Handgun	539	56	52	52	55	72	53	50	64	46	39
Rifle	141	9	16	10	9	11	9	19	27	20	11
Shotgun	69	12	7	11	4	9	7	3	8	6	2
Multiple firearms used by offender(s)¹	28	—	—	3	5	5	1	4	3	5	2
Type of firearm unknown	5	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
Type of firearm not reported	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
Knife or other cutting instrument²	56	27	29	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Knife²	147	—	—	23	21	17	17	17	14	17	21
Other cutting instrument²	69	—	—	9	10	10	18	9	2	8	3
Multiple types of weapons used by offender(s)^3,4	4	—	—	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Number of victim officers who had prior knowledge that a weapon might be involved in the incident	466	49	41	50	45	65	44	48	59	43	22

¹Beginning in 2011, a new option was added: "Multiple firearms used by offender(s)."
²For 2009 and 2010, the type of weapon categories "Knife" and "Other cutting instrument" were combined.
³Beginning in 2011, a new option was added: "Multiple types of weapons used by offender(s)."
⁴The offender(s) used multiple weapons during the incident, such as a firearm, knife, and/or other cutting instrument.
NOTE: Assault with injury data in this table reflect only a subset of those incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. For more information about this data collection, see Detailed Assault Data.

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