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Table 81

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted

Population Group, 2018

Population group 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
Group I (cities 250,000 and over) 14,888 14.0 4,283 4.0 76 48,367,377 106,070
Group II (cities 100,000–249,999) 7,434 17.1 2,357 5.4 193 28,564,320 43,443
Group III (cities 50,000–99,999) 7,218 16.3 2,162 4.9 428 30,007,905 44,415
Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999) 4,914 12.0 1,541 3.8 731 25,298,005 40,879
Group V (cities 10,000–24,999) 4,392 10.2 1,406 3.3 1,478 23,541,600 43,070
Group VI (cities under 10,000)1 4,341 6.4 1,478 2.2 5,888 18,180,086 68,129
Metropolitan counties1 13,137 8.4 4,016 2.6 1,315 59,088,347 156,715
Nonmetropolitan counties1 2,542 5.8 762 1.8 1,679 17,603,152 43,526
  • 1Includes universities and colleges, state police agencies, and/or other agencies to which no population is attributed.