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Table 30
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Region by Type of Weapon, 2002–2011
Region | Total |
Total firearms |
Handgun | Rifle | Shotgun |
Type of firearm not reported |
Knife or other cutting instrument |
Bomb |
Blunt instrument |
Personal weapons |
Vehicle | Other |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | 543 | 500 | 366 | 95 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 0 |
Northeast | 58 | 56 | 40 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Midwest | 100 | 91 | 72 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
South | 254 | 230 | 165 | 44 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 0 |
West | 111 | 103 | 71 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Puerto Rico and other outlying areas | 20 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |