Table 34
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Number of Victim Officers Wearing Uniform or Other Law Enforcement Identification Evident, 2015–20191
Victim officer | Type of uniform or other identification | Total | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 257 | 41 | 66 | 46 | 56 | 48 |
Wearing uniform | Total | 217 | 37 | 59 | 39 | 45 | 37 |
Patrol | 175 | 31 | 46 | 31 | 39 | 28 | |
Tactical | 23 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | |
Utility | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
Other type of uniform | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Unknown type of uniform | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
Type of uniform not reported | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Not in uniform | Total | 34 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
Armband | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Badge displayed | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Raid jacket with law enforcement markings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Verbal identification | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Vest with law enforcement markings | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Multiple forms of identification | 15 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | |
Other identification | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
No identification | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Other identification not reported | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Wearing uniform not reported | Total | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
- 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.