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Table 74

Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted

Extent of Injury of Victim Officer by Type of Weapon, 2015–2019

Year Extent of injury Total Firearm Knife or
other cutting
instrument 		Bomb Blunt
instrument 		Personal
weapons 		Vehicle Other
Number of victim officers Total 8,475 630 172 0 218 3,759 652 3,044
20151,2,3 Total 1,340 97 33 0 135 547 89 439
Killed 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 176 14 7 0 1 103 13 38
Not injured 814 63 26 0 0 300 46 379
Extent of injury not reported 4 349 19 0 0 134 144 30 22
20161,2,3 Total 1,447 104 40 0 26 622 99 556
Killed 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 324 10 3 0 4 201 22 84
Not injured 1,122 93 37 0 22 421 77 472
20173,5 Total 1,784 116 19 0 21 676 142 810
Killed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 426 8 1 0 7 248 30 132
Not injured 1,358 108 18 0 14 428 112 678
20184,5,6 Total 1,768 133 57 0 12 797 106 663
Killed 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 374 11 4 0 4 246 26 83
Not injured 1,392 120 53 0 8 551 80 580
20196,7 Total 2,136 180 23 0 24 1,117 216 576
Killed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Injured 372 20 5 0 9 240 19 79
Not injured 1,764 160 18 0 15 877 197 497
  • 1For 2015 and 2016, data were not reported by the U.S. Department of Defense.
  • 2For 2015 and 2016, data requests to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were inadvertently received and addressed by entities within ICE that did not possess the appropriate resources to provide comprehensive and complete data; therefore, caution must be taken when comparing 2015 and 2016 data to 2017, 2018, and 2019 data.
  • 3For 2015, 2016, and 2017, data were not reported by the Federal Protective Service; the U.S. Department of Agriculture; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; the U.S. Mint Police; and the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General.
  • 4For 2015, extent of injury data were not reported by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol.
  • 5For 2017 and 2018, data were not reported by the U.S. Marine Corps.
  • 6For 2018 and 2019, data were not reported by the Internal Revenue Service.
  • 7For 2019, data were not reported by the Commander, Navy Installations Command; the National Security Agency; the Pentagon Force Protection Agency; the
    U.S. Capitol Police; and the U.S. Mint Police.