Table 92
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms, Knives, or Other Cutting Instruments
Lighting and Weather/Environmental Conditions by Location of Incident, 2014–20181
Conditions | Total | Commercial | Government | Public space2 | Residential | Other | |||||||||||
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Inside of structure |
Outside |
Location not reported |
Inside of structure |
Outside |
Location not reported |
Inside of structure |
Outside |
Location not reported |
Inside of structure |
Outside |
Location not reported |
Inside of structure |
Outside |
Location not reported |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 511 | 28 | 54 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 178 | 0 | 85 | 137 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
Lighting | Artificial | 97 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 32 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dark | 160 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 20 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
Dawn | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Daylight | 211 | 6 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 67 | 0 | 26 | 62 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
Dusk | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Unknown | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not reported | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Weather/environmental | Blizzard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Blowing dirt/sand/soil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Clear | 293 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
Cloudy | 43 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Flooding | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Fog/smog/smoke | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Hurricane | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Rain | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Severe crosswinds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Sleet/hail | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Snow | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tornado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Other | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Unknown | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not reported | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not applicable (indoors) | 123 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 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.
- 2Examples of public space include, but are not limited to, alleys, highways, lakes, parks, rivers, roads, and sidewalks.
- 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.