Table 65
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Region and Geographic Division, 2013
Area | Total1 |
Rate per 100 officers |
Assaults with injury |
Rate per 100 officers |
Number of reporting agencies |
Population covered |
Number of officers employed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of victim officers | 49,851 | 9.3 | 14,565 | 2.7 | 11,468 | 247,084,964 | 533,895 |
NORTHEAST | 6,556 | 5.6 | 2,469 | 2.1 | 2,393 | 46,009,689 | 118,051 |
New England | 1,614 | 8.5 | 602 | 3.2 | 594 | 8,536,751 | 19,013 |
Middle Atlantic | 4,942 | 5.0 | 1,867 | 1.9 | 1,799 | 37,472,938 | 99,038 |
MIDWEST | 6,277 | 8.9 | 2,049 | 2.9 | 2,702 | 37,006,086 | 70,710 |
East North Central | 2,696 | 7.5 | 942 | 2.6 | 1,109 | 19,389,249 | 35,976 |
West North Central | 3,581 | 10.3 | 1,107 | 3.2 | 1,593 | 17,616,837 | 34,734 |
SOUTH | 22,402 | 10.3 | 5,767 | 2.7 | 4,647 | 96,252,982 | 217,527 |
South Atlantic | 14,580 | 11.4 | 3,098 | 2.4 | 2,196 | 52,235,029 | 127,709 |
East South Central | 2,837 | 8.8 | 993 | 3.1 | 977 | 14,430,213 | 32,248 |
West South Central | 4,985 | 8.7 | 1,676 | 2.9 | 1,474 | 29,587,740 | 57,570 |
WEST | 14,616 | 11.5 | 4,280 | 3.4 | 1,726 | 67,816,207 | 127,607 |
Mountain | 4,206 | 11.9 | 1,181 | 3.3 | 605 | 18,344,218 | 35,367 |
Pacific | 10,410 | 11.3 | 3,099 | 3.4 | 1,121 | 49,471,989 | 92,240 |
- 1Regional and divisional totals do not include data for the District of Columbia, Illinois, and Montana, which were not available for inclusion in this table.