Table 68
Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Lighting and Weather Conditions by Type of Accident, 2019
Conditions | Total |
Aircraft accident |
Drowning | Fall |
Firearm- related incident |
Motor vehicle crash |
Pedestrian officer struck by vehicle |
Other | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | Total | 41 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 1 |
Lighting | Artificial | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Dark | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | |
Dawn | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Daylight | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1 | |
Dusk | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
Not reported | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Weather/environmental | Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Blowing dirt/sand/soil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Clear | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 0 | |
Cloudy/partly cloudy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
Earthquake | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Fire/fog/smog/smoke | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Flooding | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Freezing rain/hail/sleet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Hurricane | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Indoors (no adverse conditions) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Rain | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
Severe crosswinds/high winds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Snow | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Tornado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not reported | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |