Table 83
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Circumstance at Scene of Incident by Population Group and Percent Cleared,1, 2 2018
Circumstance | Total |
Percent cleared |
Group I (cities 250,000 and over) |
Group II (cities 100,000– 249,999) |
Group III (cities 50,000– 99,999) |
Group IV (cities 25,000– 49,999) |
Group V (cities 10,000– 24,999) |
Group VI (cities under 10,000) |
Metropolitan counties |
Nonmetropolitan counties |
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Number of victim officers | 58,866 | 86.8 | 14,888 | 87.8 | 7,434 | 87.2 | 7,218 | 87.4 | 4,914 | 84.2 | 4,392 | 88.1 | 4,341 | 82.0 | 13,137 | 87.7 | 2,542 | 83.5 |
Disturbance call | 18,232 | 89.1 | 3,927 | 92.8 | 2,791 | 90.8 | 2,672 | 86.6 | 1,723 | 88.9 | 1,573 | 90.9 | 1,327 | 81.2 | 3,598 | 88.9 | 621 | 81.6 |
Burglary in progress/pursuing burglary suspect | 762 | 87.7 | 278 | 83.5 | 134 | 93.3 | 80 | 86.3 | 57 | 80.7 | 44 | 90.9 | 32 | 87.5 | 116 | 94.0 | 21 | 90.5 |
Robbery in progress/pursuing robbery suspect | 497 | 87.7 | 187 | 88.8 | 72 | 83.3 | 67 | 94.0 | 36 | 88.9 | 11 | 81.8 | 32 | 93.8 | 78 | 83.3 | 14 | 78.6 |
Attempting other arrest | 9,688 | 89.5 | 2,361 | 92.5 | 1,287 | 83.6 | 1,298 | 89.9 | 933 | 84.6 | 759 | 89.5 | 799 | 90.1 | 1,853 | 92.0 | 398 | 87.7 |
Civil disorder (mass disobedience, riot, etc.) | 590 | 90.2 | 147 | 86.4 | 100 | 93.0 | 118 | 92.4 | 34 | 94.1 | 24 | 91.7 | 41 | 87.8 | 105 | 91.4 | 21 | 81.0 |
Handling, transporting, custody of prisoner | 7,286 | 87.4 | 1,868 | 94.1 | 712 | 90.4 | 688 | 86.3 | 565 | 79.5 | 430 | 89.1 | 463 | 79.5 | 2,146 | 86.5 | 414 | 76.6 |
Investigating suspicious person/circumstance | 5,644 | 86.9 | 1,479 | 88.6 | 697 | 84.4 | 726 | 90.2 | 501 | 81.8 | 451 | 89.4 | 461 | 81.1 | 1,155 | 87.1 | 174 | 89.7 |
Ambush situation | 300 | 75.0 | 127 | 79.5 | 18 | 94.4 | 15 | 73.3 | 21 | 76.2 | 14 | 71.4 | 27 | 63.0 | 58 | 65.5 | 20 | 75.0 |
Handling person with mental illness | 2,230 | 80.6 | 579 | 82.2 | 190 | 74.2 | 232 | 79.7 | 170 | 79.4 | 176 | 83.5 | 229 | 86.0 | 573 | 78.9 | 81 | 79.0 |
Traffic pursuit/stop | 4,809 | 82.2 | 1,132 | 76.6 | 483 | 79.3 | 521 | 85.2 | 295 | 84.1 | 374 | 84.2 | 345 | 80.9 | 1,183 | 85.0 | 476 | 86.3 |
All other | 8,828 | 82.5 | 2,803 | 78.9 | 950 | 86.1 | 801 | 87.1 | 579 | 77.4 | 536 | 80.8 | 585 | 73.8 | 2,272 | 87.5 | 302 | 85.1 |
- 1Offenses reported to the national UCR Program can be cleared by arrest or exceptional means (when elements beyond law enforcement's control prevent the agency from placing formal charges against the offender).
- 2Percent cleared may include clearances for previous years' offenses.