Table 122
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms, Knives, or Other Cutting
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of victim officers | Total | 511 | 106 | 102 | 119 | 103 | 81 |
| Wearing uniform | Total | 455 | 100 | 97 | 108 | 85 | 65 |
| Patrol | 375 | 84 | 75 | 87 | 73 | 56 | |
| Tactical | 53 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 5 | |
| Utility | 18 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| Other type of uniform | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Unknown | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Not reported | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Not in uniform | Total | 49 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 12 |
| Armband | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Badge displayed | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Raid jacket with law enforcement markings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Verbal identification | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Vest with law enforcement markings | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Mutiple forms of identification | 27 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 7 | |
| Other identification | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| No identification | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Unknown | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wearing uniform not reported | Total | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
- 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.
- 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.
