Table 69

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Region, Geographic Division, and State by Type of Weapon, 2006

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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	58,634	2,278	1,047	8,512	46,797	10,346	222,640,401	495,270
NORTHEAST	7,638	386	117	902	6,233	1,906	30,421,660	76,136
New England	1,396	14	14	143	1,225	373	5,318,286	12,493
Connecticut	355	1	4	41	309	27	1,203,373	2,863
Maine	277	5	0	31	241	131	1,319,259	1,897
Massachusetts	168	0	1	14	153	49	895,443	3,294
New Hampshire	280	1	4	17	258	60	684,153	1,320
Rhode Island	288	7	5	39	237	45	891,121	2,077
Vermont	28	0	0	1	27	61	324,937	1,042
Middle Atlantic	6,242	372	103	759	5,008	1,533	25,103,374	63,643
New Jersey	2,745	55	33	293	2,364	482	8,440,366	23,042
New York	604	12	7	65	520	372	8,874,417	22,500
Pennsylvania	2,893	305	63	401	2,124	679	7,788,591	18,101
MIDWEST	7,390	275	141	857	6,117	2,681	39,191,056	76,759
East North Central	3,751	136	57	386	3,172	1,215	22,548,627	45,109
Illinois¹
Indiana	1,275	26	8	77	1,164	160	4,614,723	7,980
Michigan	1,254	82	34	186	952	546	9,676,417	18,970
Ohio	495	6	4	82	403	150	2,778,618	5,232
Wisconsin	727	22	11	41	653	359	5,478,869	12,927
West North Central	3,639	139	84	471	2,945	1,466	16,642,429	31,650
Iowa	496	5	19	73	399	221	2,764,001	4,058
Kansas	569	27	7	67	468	219	1,778,622	4,770
Minnesota	171	0	4	28	139	314	4,647,668	7,661
Missouri	2,159	107	49	288	1,715	518	5,263,543	10,911
Nebraska	147	0	4	9	134	120	1,591,470	3,243
North Dakota	97	0	1	6	90	74	597,125	1,007
South Dakota¹
SOUTH	29,816	1,064	538	4,656	23,558	4,259	92,256,107	213,948
South Atlantic	18,681	492	297	2,844	15,048	1,806	47,891,585	119,063
Delaware	569	8	9	122	430	52	853,476	2,239
District of Columbia²	91	3	3	4	81	2		397
Florida	8,515	168	138	1,393	6,816	442	17,991,097	45,572
Georgia	666	19	9	116	522	187	3,903,752	11,115
Maryland	4,176	104	54	414	3,604	147	5,605,061	15,032
North Carolina	2,507	110	37	274	2,086	378	8,014,983	19,218
South Carolina	1,016	57	26	223	710	362	4,274,301	10,578
Virginia	1,141	23	21	298	799	236	7,248,915	14,912
West Virginia¹
East South Central	3,014	220	112	638	2,044	917	13,216,432	31,245
Alabama	256	50	8	23	175	358	4,459,997	10,347
Kentucky	310	6	7	51	246	7	1,089,056	2,116
Mississippi	252	20	7	40	185	102	1,633,129	3,798
Tennessee	2,196	144	90	524	1,438	450	6,034,250	14,984
West South Central	8,121	352	129	1,174	6,466	1,536	31,148,090	63,640
Arkansas	389	23	12	70	284	225	2,523,391	4,976
Louisiana	2,228	45	21	383	1,779	67	1,967,697	6,525
Oklahoma	972	44	21	156	751	293	3,528,520	6,293
Texas	4,532	240	75	565	3,652	951	23,128,482	45,846
WEST	13,790	553	251	2,097	10,889	1,500	60,771,578	128,427
Mountain	4,965	281	107	861	3,716	633	18,659,162	37,607
Arizona	2,046	116	36	396	1,498	80	5,794,836	11,412
Colorado	982	67	30	196	689	207	4,613,081	11,027
Idaho	225	7	5	21	192	104	1,458,022	2,581
Montana¹
Nevada	602	51	15	78	458	35	2,490,991	5,113
New Mexico	713	26	16	131	540	39	1,314,753	2,532
Utah	339	11	5	30	293	107	2,484,578	3,832
Wyoming	58	3	0	9	46	61	502,901	1,110
Pacific	8,825	272	144	1,236	7,173	867	42,112,416	90,820
Alaska	239	26	9	39	165	31	648,530	1,146
California	6,970	207	109	999	5,655	455	31,535,280	74,532
Hawaii	280	1	4	24	251	2	1,081,338	2,444
Oregon	351	3	3	40	305	146	2,817,892	3,785
Washington	985	35	19	134	797	233	6,029,376	8,913

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