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Table 129

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

Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Known Offender, 2009–2018

Known offender Total 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Number of known offenders 943 102 112 99 96 109 93 85 98 82 67
Race White 548 49 60 65 58 50 58 43 66 51 48
Black/African American 363 50 52 33 34 53 33 35 30 28 15
American Indian/Alaska Native 6 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander1 2 2 0
Asian1 13 0 3 2 1 4 2 1 0
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander1 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
Unknown 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
Not reported 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
Ethnicity2 Hispanic or Latino 130 20 6 15 18 12 24 16 19
Not Hispanic or Latino 578 73 87 87 75 73 73 63 47
Not reported 235 102 112 6 3 7 0 0 1 3 1
Sex Male 887 97 105 88 88 104 88 77 97 80 63
Female 55 5 7 11 8 5 5 8 1 1 4
Not reported 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
  • 1For 2009 and 2010, the race categories "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander" were combined.
  • 2Beginning in 2011, ethnicity was added to the data collection.
  • 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.