Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Population Group of Victim Officer's Agency by Type of Weapon, 2005
| Population group | Total | Firearm | Knife or other cutting instrument |
Other dangerous weapon |
Personal weapons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 57,546 | 2,145 | 1,059 | 8,314 | 46,028 |
| Percent distribution1 | 100.0 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 14.4 | 80.0 |
| Group I (cities 250,000 and over) | 15,128 | 915 | 309 | 2,351 | 11,553 |
| Group II (cities 100,000 - 249,999) | 6,804 | 198 | 101 | 977 | 5,528 |
| Group III (cities 50,000 - 99,999) | 5,879 | 152 | 89 | 774 | 4,864 |
| Group IV (cities 25,000 - 49,999) | 4,631 | 77 | 67 | 684 | 3,803 |
| Group V (cities 10,000 - 24,999) | 3,987 | 77 | 70 | 474 | 3,366 |
| Group VI (cities under 10,000) | 4,478 | 111 | 100 | 532 | 3,735 |
| Metropolitan counties | 14,252 | 430 | 259 | 2,067 | 11,496 |
| Nonmetropolitan counties | 2,387 | 185 | 64 | 455 | 1,683 |