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Table 34

Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed

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 259 51 41 66 46 55
Wearing uniform Total 221 43 37 59 39 43
Patrol 182 37 31 46 31 37
Tactical 22 6 2 6 4 4
Utility 10 0 3 4 2 1
Other type of uniform 2 0 0 2 0 0
Unknown 1 0 0 0 1 0
Not reported 4 0 1 1 1 1
Not in uniform Total 34 8 4 5 7 10
Armband 0 0 0 0 0 0
Badge displayed 3 0 2 0 0 1
Raid jacket with law enforcement markings 0 0 0 0 0 0
Verbal identification 5 3 0 1 0 1
Vest with law enforcement markings 3 0 0 1 1 1
Mutiple forms of identification 16 4 1 2 4 5
Other identification 4 1 0 0 1 2
No identification 3 0 1 1 1 0
Wearing uniform not reported Total 4 0 0 2 0 2
  • 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.