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Table 116

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms, Knives, or Other Cutting Instruments

Type of Weapon, 2010–2019

Type of weapon Total 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Number of victim officers 1,031 104 110 105 126 106 102 119 103 81 75
Total firearms 770 75 76 74 99 72 77 103 77 54 63
Handgun 526 52 52 57 72 54 51 64 45 38 41
Rifle 148 16 10 8 11 9 19 28 20 11 16
Shotgun 58 7 11 4 9 7 3 8 6 2 1
Multiple firearms1 32 — 3 5 5 1 4 2 5 2 5
Type of firearm unknown 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
Type of firearm not reported 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
Knife or other cutting instrument2 29 29 — — — — — — — — —
Knife2 159 — 25 21 17 16 16 14 17 23 10
Other cutting instrument2 70 — 9 10 10 18 9 2 8 3 1
Multiple types of weapons3,4 3 — 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Number of victim officers who had prior knowledge that a weapon might be involved in the incident 457 41 50 45 65 44 48 59 43 23 39
  • 1Beginning in 2011, a new option was added: "Multiple firearms."
  • 2Prior to 2011, the type of weapon categories "Knife" and "Other cutting instrument" were combined.
  • 3Beginning in 2011, a new option was added: "Multiple types of weapons."
  • 4The offender(s) used multiple weapons during the incident, such as a firearm, knife, and/or other cutting instrument.
  • NOTE: Assault with injury data in this table reflect only a subset of those incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. For more information about this data collection, see Detailed Assault Data.