Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Circumstance at Scene of Incident by Type of Weapon, Percent Distribution,1 2005
| Circumstance | Total | Firearm | Knife or other cutting instrument |
Other dangerous weapon |
Personal weapons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 57,546 | 2,145 | 1,059 | 8,314 | 46,028 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 14.4 | 80.0 |
| Disturbance calls (family quarrels, bar fights, person with firearm, etc.) | 17,534 | 755 | 543 | 1,643 | 14,593 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 9.4 | 83.2 |
| Burglaries in progress/pursuing burglary suspects | 802 | 57 | 17 | 145 | 583 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 7.1 | 2.1 | 18.1 | 72.7 |
| Robberies in progress/pursuing robbery suspects | 531 | 101 | 11 | 118 | 301 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 19.0 | 2.1 | 22.2 | 56.7 |
| Attempting other arrests | 9,602 | 240 | 98 | 1,173 | 8,091 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 12.2 | 84.3 |
| Civil disorders (mass disobedience, riot, etc.) | 727 | 13 | 12 | 106 | 596 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 14.6 | 82.0 |
| Handling, transporting, custody of prisoners | 7,356 | 30 | 34 | 541 | 6,751 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 7.4 | 91.8 |
| Investigating suspicious persons/circumstances | 5,520 | 255 | 103 | 808 | 4,354 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 4.6 | 1.9 | 14.6 | 78.9 |
| Ambush situations | 181 | 32 | 8 | 37 | 104 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 17.7 | 4.4 | 20.4 | 57.5 |
| Handling mentally deranged persons | 1,110 | 73 | 71 | 107 | 859 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 9.6 | 77.4 |
| Traffic pursuits/stops | 6,360 | 259 | 46 | 2,346 | 3,709 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 4.1 | 0.7 | 36.9 | 58.3 |
| All other | 7,823 | 330 | 116 | 1,290 | 6,087 |
| Percent distribution | 100.0 | 4.2 | 1.5 | 16.5 | 77.8 |