Table 77
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Department, Agency, and Office by Type of Weapon, 2018 1
Department/Agency | Agency/Office | Total | Firearm |
Knife or other cutting instrument |
Bomb |
Blunt instrument |
Personal weapons |
Vehicle | Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | Total | 1,768 | 133 | 57 | 0 | 12 | 797 | 106 | 663 |
U.S. Capitol Police | Total | 18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
U.S. Department of Agriculture | Total | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
U.S. Forest Service, Law Enforcement and Investigations | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
U.S. Department of Defense | Total | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
National Security Agency | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Pentagon Force Protection Agency | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
U.S. Department of the Army | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
U.S. Department of the Navy, Commander, Navy Installations Command | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | Total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
National Institutes of Health Police | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Total | 751 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 374 | 62 | 279 |
Federal Protective Service | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 19 | |
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) | 634 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 304 | 49 | 259 | |
CBP, Air and Marine Operations | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 26 | |
CBP, Office of Field Operations | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 65 | 2 | 7 | |
CBP, U.S. Border Patrol | 529 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 239 | 43 | 226 | |
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 75 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 54 | 10 | 0 | |
U.S. Secret Service | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 1 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | Total | 689 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 4 | 279 | 17 | 321 |
Bureau of Indian Affairs | 511 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 200 | 4 | 281 | |
Bureau of Land Management | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
National Park Service | 167 | 22 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 76 | 12 | 38 | |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Refuge Law Enforcement | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Department of Justice | Total | 271 | 72 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 141 | 19 | 24 |
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives | 13 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Federal Bureau of Investigation | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration | 16 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | |
U.S. Marshals Service | 227 | 47 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 138 | 9 | 19 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
U.S. Mint Police | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
U.S. Postal Service | Total | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
U.S. Postal Inspection Service (including the U.S. Postal Police) | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
- 1This table includes federal agencies that indicated one or more of their law enforcement officers were killed or assaulted. To view a full list of participating federal agencies, refer to Table 71.