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Table 4

Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed

Lighting and Weather Conditions by Location of Incident, 2015–20191

Conditions Total Commercial Government Public space2 Residential Other
Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported
Number of victim officers Total 257 18 24 0 6 7 0 1 110 0 27 62 0 0 2 0
Lighting Artificial 59 14 9 0 5 4 0 0 15 0 6 6 0 0 0 0
Dark 62 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 33 0 7 15 0 0 1 0
Dawn 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
Daylight 104 3 7 0 1 3 0 1 46 0 9 33 0 0 1 0
Dusk 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
Not reported 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 5 2 0 0 0 0
Weather/environmental Blizzard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blowing dirt/sand/soil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clear 156 0 20 0 0 6 0 0 79 0 0 49 0 0 2 0
Cloudy/partly cloudy 17 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Earthquake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire/fog/smog/smoke 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flooding 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Freezing rain/hail/sleet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hurricane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indoors (no adverse conditions) 52 18 0 0 6 0 0 1 0 0 27 0 0 0 0 0
Rain 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
Severe crosswinds/high winds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Snow 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Tornado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Unknown 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
  • 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.
  • 2Examples of public space include, but are not limited to, alleys, highways, lakes, parks, rivers, roads, and sidewalks.