Table 63

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Region and Geographic Division, 2006

Area	Total¹	Rate per 100 officers	Assaults with injury	Rate per 100 officers	Number of reporting agencies	Population covered	Number of officers employed
Number of victim officers	58,634	11.8	15,704	3.2	10,346	222,640,401	495,270
NORTHEAST	7,638	10.0	2,403	3.2	1,906	30,421,660	76,136
New England	1,396	11.2	466	3.7	373	5,318,286	12,493
Middle Atlantic	6,242	9.8	1,937	3.0	1,533	25,103,374	63,643
MIDWEST	7,390	9.6	2,132	2.8	2,681	39,191,056	76,759
East North Central	3,751	8.3	1,207	2.7	1,215	22,548,627	45,109
West North Central	3,639	11.5	925	2.9	1,466	16,642,429	31,650
SOUTH	29,816	13.9	7,188	3.4	4,259	92,256,107	213,948
South Atlantic	18,681	15.7	4,104	3.4	1,806	47,891,585	119,063
East South Central	3,014	9.6	932	3.0	917	13,216,432	31,245
West South Central	8,121	12.8	2,152	3.4	1,536	31,148,090	63,640
WEST	13,790	10.7	3,981	3.1	1,500	60,771,578	128,427
Mountain	4,965	13.2	1,389	3.7	633	18,659,162	37,607
Pacific	8,825	9.7	2,592	2.9	867	42,112,416	90,820

¹ Regional and divisional totals do not include data for Illinois, Montana, South Dakota, and West Virginia, which were not available for inclusion in this tabulation.