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Table 97

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

Month of Incident, 2009–2018

Month Total 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Number of victim officers 1,062 106 104 110 105 126 106 102 119 103 81
January 101 7 8 11 12 15 10 11 14 3 10
February 92 11 6 10 8 12 8 8 15 8 6
March 105 8 13 12 12 11 11 13 7 11 7
April 89 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 10 7 10
May 74 12 13 10 9 1 7 6 6 4 6
June 76 8 7 11 6 10 7 1 9 15 2
July 89 6 9 10 10 6 8 11 15 6 8
August 86 6 8 6 12 12 9 11 5 9 8
September 99 16 10 4 7 14 7 8 13 13 7
October 86 5 7 7 5 26 9 6 4 7 10
November 82 8 7 7 6 7 9 12 13 10 3
December 83 10 7 13 9 4 12 6 8 10 4
  • 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.