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Table 3

Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed

Lighting and Weather Conditions by Location of Incident, 2019

Conditions Total Commercial Government Public space1 Residential Other
Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported 		Inside
of
structure 		Outside Location
not
reported
Number of victim officers Total 48 2 10 0 0 3 0 0 14 0 8 11 0 0 0 0
Lighting Artificial 16 2 6 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
Dark 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
Dawn 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Daylight 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 5 0 0 0 0
Dusk 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0
Weather/environmental Blizzard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blowing dirt/sand/soil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clear 28 0 8 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 8 0 0 0 0
Cloudy/partly cloudy 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Earthquake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fire/fog/smog/smoke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flooding 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Freezing rain/hail/sleet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hurricane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Indoors (no adverse conditions) 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0
Rain 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Severe crosswinds/high winds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Snow 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tornado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Unknown 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not reported 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
  • 1Examples of public space include, but are not limited to, alleys, highways, lakes, parks, rivers, roads, and sidewalks.