Table 71

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Geographic Region, Division, and State by Type of Weapon, 2007

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Area	Total	Firearm	Knife or other cutting instrument	Other dangerous weapon	Personal weapons	Number of reporting agencies	Population covered	Number of officers employed
Number of victim officers	59,201	2,176	1,023	8,507	47,495	10,856	231,763,568	517,875
NORTHEAST	7,847	357	128	936	6,426	2,115	34,490,852	84,565
New England	1,667	10	7	160	1,490	444	7,528,035	17,584
Connecticut	609	7	1	69	532	97	3,332,188	7,449
Maine	261	0	0	23	238	129	1,288,717	1,952
Massachusetts	156	1	0	16	139	45	989,480	3,464
New Hampshire	123	0	1	11	111	66	527,220	1,057
Rhode Island	480	2	5	40	433	47	1,057,832	2,578
Vermont	38	0	0	1	37	60	332,598	1,084
Middle Atlantic	6,180	347	121	776	4,936	1,671	26,962,817	66,981
New Jersey	2,597	34	32	297	2,234	480	8,405,701	21,986
New York	656	5	13	68	570	391	10,168,170	25,742
Pennsylvania	2,927	308	76	411	2,132	800	8,388,946	19,253
MIDWEST	8,087	312	106	904	6,765	2,770	39,934,067	79,332
East North Central	3,879	141	47	389	3,302	1,193	22,502,723	44,432
Illinois¹
Indiana	1,233	17	7	84	1,125	168	4,694,508	7,915
Michigan	1,152	90	24	183	855	512	9,434,726	17,533
Ohio	472	10	10	54	398	144	2,805,092	6,067
Wisconsin	1,022	24	6	68	924	369	5,568,397	12,917
West North Central	4,208	171	59	515	3,463	1,577	17,431,344	34,900
Iowa	429	7	7	81	334	183	2,447,807	3,759
Kansas	1,060	30	10	106	914	222	2,235,698	5,630
Minnesota	99	1	0	13	85	319	4,694,557	7,866
Missouri	2,157	128	34	281	1,714	554	5,334,639	12,593
Nebraska	293	3	4	23	263	117	1,442,803	2,915
North Dakota	62	0	0	1	61	79	605,056	1,025
South Dakota	108	2	4	10	92	103	670,784	1,112
SOUTH	28,685	991	523	4,421	22,750	4,360	95,230,089	219,211
South Atlantic	17,943	502	300	2,651	14,490	1,870	49,862,401	120,873
Delaware	568	5	5	126	432	52	853,364	2,231
District of Columbia²	89	0	4	4	81	2		395
Florida	8,382	205	113	1,425	6,639	449	18,231,310	43,917
Georgia	852	46	18	123	665	277	6,468,788	18,116
Maryland	3,821	67	59	353	3,342	128	5,386,120	13,987
North Carolina	2,150	89	37	205	1,819	323	7,088,564	15,605
South Carolina	831	56	31	186	558	378	4,406,102	11,022
Virginia	1,250	34	33	229	954	261	7,428,153	15,600
West Virginia¹
East South Central	2,993	192	107	650	2,044	902	13,162,663	31,184
Alabama	184	13	5	33	133	363	4,533,379	10,671
Kentucky	294	18	5	54	217	7	1,095,362	2,095
Mississippi	253	16	1	32	204	96	1,538,523	3,366
Tennessee	2,262	145	96	531	1,490	436	5,995,399	15,052
West South Central	7,749	297	116	1,120	6,216	1,588	32,205,025	67,154
Arkansas	373	11	9	64	289	242	2,675,038	5,374
Louisiana	2,046	30	14	364	1,638	83	2,591,390	8,061
Oklahoma	998	49	13	151	785	292	3,562,001	6,387
Texas	4,332	207	80	541	3,504	971	23,376,596	47,332
WEST	14,582	516	266	2,246	11,554	1,611	62,108,560	134,767
Mountain	5,457	242	159	896	4,160	753	20,139,681	41,787
Arizona	1,973	136	40	339	1,458	78	5,780,048	11,872
Colorado	916	35	49	169	663	206	4,679,267	11,157
Idaho	250	7	6	23	214	106	1,495,882	2,657
Montana	193	3	3	23	164	94	932,931	1,423
Nevada	569	20	11	110	428	33	2,539,042	5,820
New Mexico	810	25	32	167	586	65	1,619,035	3,671
Utah	687	16	16	52	603	110	2,576,980	3,987
Wyoming	59	0	2	13	44	61	516,496	1,200
Pacific	9,125	274	107	1,350	7,394	858	41,968,879	92,980
Alaska	253	6	7	47	193	32	667,568	1,166
California	7,549	251	87	1,138	6,073	457	31,659,645	77,650
Hawaii¹
Oregon	431	10	0	48	373	144	3,576,674	5,275
Washington	892	7	13	117	755	225	6,064,992	8,889

¹Data for Hawaii, Illinois, and West Virginia were not available for inclusion in this table.
²The figures represent the number of assaults on officers reported by the Metro Transit Police and the National Zoological Park.