Table 116
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms, Knives, or Other Cutting Instruments
Type of Weapon, 2010–2019
Type of weapon | Total | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Number of victim officers | 1,031 | 104 | 110 | 105 | 126 | 106 | 102 | 119 | 103 | 81 | 75 |
Total firearms | 770 | 75 | 76 | 74 | 99 | 72 | 77 | 103 | 77 | 54 | 63 |
Handgun | 526 | 52 | 52 | 57 | 72 | 54 | 51 | 64 | 45 | 38 | 41 |
Rifle | 148 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 20 | 11 | 16 |
Shotgun | 58 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
Multiple firearms1 | 32 | — | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 |
Type of firearm unknown | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Type of firearm not reported | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Knife or other cutting instrument2 | 29 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Knife2 | 159 | — | 25 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 23 | 10 |
Other cutting instrument2 | 70 | — | 9 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
Multiple types of weapons3,4 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Number of victim officers who had prior knowledge that a weapon might be involved in the incident | 457 | 41 | 50 | 45 | 65 | 44 | 48 | 59 | 43 | 23 | 39 |
- 1Beginning in 2011, a new option was added: "Multiple firearms."
- 2Prior to 2011, the type of weapon categories "Knife" and "Other cutting instrument" were combined.
- 3Beginning in 2011, a new option was added: "Multiple types of weapons."
- 4The offender(s) used multiple weapons during the incident, such as a firearm, knife, and/or other cutting instrument.
- 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.