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Table 16
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Population Group/Agency Type by Type of Assignment, 2001–2010
| Population group/agency type | Total |
2-Officer vehicle |
1-Officer vehicle | Foot patrol | Other1 |
Off duty |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | Alone | Assisted | ||||
| Number of victim officers | 541 | 53 | 152 | 160 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 100 | 50 |
| Group I (cities 250,000 and over) | 115 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 29 | 11 |
| Group II (cities 100,000–249,999) | 49 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Group III (cities 50,000–99,999) | 30 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999) | 28 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Group V (cities 10,000–24,999) | 34 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| Group VI (cities under 10,000) | 54 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| Metropolitan counties | 102 | 7 | 29 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 9 |
| Nonmetropolitan counties | 55 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| State agencies | 40 | 3 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Federal agencies | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
|
Puerto Rico and other outlying areas |
23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 10 |
- 1Includes detectives, officers on special assignments, undercover officers, and officers on other types of assignments not listed.
- NOTE: The deaths of the 72 law enforcement officers that resulted from the events of September 11, 2001, are not included in this table.
