Table 73
Federal Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Department, Agency, and Office by Extent of Injury of Victim Officer, 2015 –20191
Department/Agency | Agency/Office | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | ||||||||||
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Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
Killed | Injured |
Not injured |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 1 | 176 | 814 | 1 | 324 | 1,122 | 0 | 426 | 1,358 | 2 | 374 | 1,392 | 0 | 372 | 1,764 |
U.S. Capitol Police2 | Total | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 15 | |||
U.S. Department of Agriculture3 | Total | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
U.S. Forest Service, Law Enforcement and Investigations | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
U.S. Department of Defense4 | Total | 0 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 46 | ||||||
National Security Agency2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
Pentagon Force Protection Agency2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
U.S. Department of the Army | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
U.S. Department of the Navy5 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Commander, Navy Installations Command2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Marine Corps6 | 0 | 1 | 46 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services3 | Total | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
National Institutes of Health Police | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Total | 0 | 36 | 103 | 0 | 146 | 357 | 0 | 225 | 462 | 0 | 219 | 532 | 0 | 240 | 493 |
Federal Protective Service3 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) | 0 | 24 | 81 | 0 | 139 | 345 | 0 | 137 | 369 | 0 | 162 | 472 | 0 | 177 | 432 | |
CBP, Air and Marine Operations | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 12 | |
CBP, Office of Field Operations | 0 | 24 | 62 | 0 | 7 | 61 | 0 | 29 | 33 | 0 | 24 | 51 | 0 | 61 | 74 | |
CBP, U.S. Border Patrol7 | 0 | 132 | 265 | 0 | 103 | 329 | 0 | 135 | 394 | 0 | 115 | 346 | ||||
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 83 | 0 | 30 | 45 | 0 | 57 | 37 | |
U.S. Secret Service | 0 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 24 | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | Total | 0 | 85 | 485 | 0 | 117 | 504 | 0 | 124 | 600 | 0 | 83 | 606 | 0 | 107 | 871 |
Bureau of Indian Affairs | 0 | 74 | 431 | 0 | 86 | 418 | 0 | 105 | 504 | 0 | 72 | 439 | 0 | 75 | 690 | |
Bureau of Land Management | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
National Park Service (NPS)9 | 0 | 7 | 47 | 0 | 31 | 76 | 0 | 15 | 83 | 0 | 8 | 159 | 0 | 31 | 175 | |
NPS Rangers | 0 | 19 | 151 | |||||||||||||
NPS, U.S. Park Police | 0 | 12 | 24 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Refuge Law Enforcement | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
U.S. Department of Justice | Total | 1 | 49 | 214 | 1 | 57 | 240 | 0 | 66 | 267 | 2 | 52 | 217 | 0 | 19 | 350 |
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 15 | |
Federal Bureau of Investigation | 0 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 13 | |
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
U.S. Marshals Service | 1 | 38 | 177 | 1 | 50 | 215 | 0 | 61 | 228 | 2 | 39 | 186 | 0 | 13 | 315 | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury | Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Internal Revenue Service10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
U.S. Mint Police2,3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
U.S. Postal Service | Total | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Office of Inspector General3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
U.S. Postal Inspection Service (including the U.S. Postal Police) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
- 1This table includes federal agencies that indicated one or more of their law enforcement officers were killed or assaulted. To view a full list of 2018 and 2019 participating federal agencies, refer to Table 71.
- 2For 2019, data were not reported by these departments, agencies, or offices.
- 3For 2015, 2016, and 2017, data were not reported by these departments, agencies, or offices.
- 4For 2015 and 2016, data were not reported by the U.S. Department of Defense.
- 5For 2017, data reported by the U.S. Department of the Navy were aggregated and not submitted separately.
- 6For 2017 and 2018, data were not reported by the U.S. Marine Corps.
- 7For 2015, extent of injury data for 349 victim officers were not reported by the CBP, U.S. Border Patrol.
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8For 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. - 9For 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, data reported by the National Park Service were aggregated and not submitted separately.
- 10For 2018 and 2019, data were not reported by the Internal Revenue Service.