Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Region by Type of Weapon, 1996-2005
| Region | Total | Total firearms |
Handgun | Rifle | Shotgun | Knife or other cutting instrument |
Bomb | Blunt instrument |
Personal weapons |
Vehicle | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 575 | 532 | 394 | 103 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 0 |
| Northeast | 50 | 48 | 40 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midwest | 109 | 99 | 76 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| South | 274 | 253 | 178 | 52 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 0 |
| West | 108 | 99 | 70 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Puerto Rico and Other Outlying Areas | 34 | 33 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |