The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program collects information monthly about assaults on duly sworn local, state, and tribal law enforcement officers. The agencies that employ these officers collect and submit data either through their state UCR Program or, for non-Program states, directly to the FBI. For assault data to be included in this publication, law enforcement agencies must have submitted information for all 12 months of 2005 on their sworn officers who were assaulted as well as the number of people their agency employed full time for the reporting year.
Law enforcement agencies report to the UCR Program the number of assaults resulting in injuries to their officers or instances in which an offender used a weapon that could have caused serious injury or death. Agencies record other assaults only if they involved more than verbal abuse or minor resistance to an arrest.
Contact the Communications Unit of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division via e-mail at cjis_comm@leo.gov or by telephone at (304) 625-4995.