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 |
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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.
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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.