Table 81
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Population Group, 2019
Population group | Total |
Rate per 100 officers |
Assaults with injury |
Rate per 100 officers |
Number of reporting agencies |
Population covered |
Number of officers employed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | 56,034 | 11.8 | 17,188 | 3.6 | 9,457 | 219,848,450 | 475,848 |
Group I (cities 250,000 and over) | 13,498 | 14.2 | 4,210 | 4.4 | 75 | 46,120,245 | 94,866 |
Group II (cities 100,000–249,999) | 7,546 | 19.2 | 2,298 | 5.8 | 179 | 26,001,954 | 39,310 |
Group III (cities 50,000–99,999) | 6,952 | 18.6 | 2,034 | 5.5 | 364 | 25,468,695 | 37,297 |
Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999) | 4,527 | 13.7 | 1,406 | 4.2 | 595 | 20,799,787 | 33,155 |
Group V (cities 10,000–24,999) | 3,980 | 11.8 | 1,188 | 3.5 | 1,151 | 18,544,835 | 33,718 |
Group VI (cities under 10,000)1 | 4,512 | 8.4 | 1,452 | 2.7 | 4,460 | 13,468,087 | 53,941 |
Metropolitan counties1 | 12,558 | 8.5 | 3,791 | 2.6 | 1,193 | 54,156,395 | 147,523 |
Nonmetropolitan counties1 | 2,461 | 6.8 | 809 | 2.2 | 1,440 | 15,288,452 | 36,038 |
- 1Includes universities and colleges, state police agencies, and/or other agencies to which no population is attributed.