Table 92
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms, Knives, or Other Cutting Instruments
Lighting and Weather Conditions by Location of Incident, 2015–20191
Conditions | Total | Commercial | Government | Public space2 | Residential | Other | |||||||||||
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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 |
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Number of victim officers | Total | 480 | 24 | 53 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 158 | 0 | 93 | 123 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
Lighting | Artificial | 97 | 19 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 33 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dark | 134 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 20 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
Dawn | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Daylight | 209 | 4 | 28 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 0 | 34 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
Dusk | 25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Unknown | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not reported | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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 | 272 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 0 | 1 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
Cloudy/partly cloudy | 40 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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) | 126 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Rain | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tornado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Unknown | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not reported | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 1Ten years of data for the topics presented in this table are not available at this time. A 10-year table is expected to be available for the publication of 2020 data.
- 2Examples of public space include, but are not limited to, alleys, highways, lakes, parks, rivers, roads, and sidewalks.
- 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.