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Home LEOKA 2019 Tables Table 97

Table 97

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

Month of Incident, 2010–2019

Month 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
January 104 8 11 12 15 10 11 14 3 10 10
February 86 6 10 8 12 8 8 15 8 6 5
March 99 13 12 12 11 11 13 7 11 7 2
April 84 9 9 9 8 9 9 10 7 10 4
May 70 13 10 9 1 7 6 6 4 6 8
June 73 7 11 6 10 7 1 9 15 2 5
July 89 9 10 10 6 8 11 15 6 8 6
August 93 8 6 12 12 9 11 5 9 8 13
September 88 10 4 7 14 7 8 13 13 7 5
October 83 7 7 5 26 9 6 4 7 10 2
November 79 7 7 6 7 9 12 13 10 3 5
December 83 7 13 9 4 12 6 8 10 4 10
  • 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.