Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Region by Type of Weapon, 2005
| Region | Total | Total firearms |
Handgun | Rifle | Shotgun | Knife or other cutting instrument |
Bomb | Blunt instrument |
Personal weapons |
Vehicle | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 55 | 50 | 42 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Northeast | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midwest | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| South | 28 | 25 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| West | 10 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Puerto Rico and Other Outlying Areas | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |