Table 64

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Population Group of Victim Officer's Agency, 2006

Population group	Total	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	58,634	11.8	15,704	3.2	10,346	222,640,401	495,270
Group I (cities 250,000 and over)	14,744	16.4	4,176	4.7	60	38,967,136	89,704
Group II (cities 100,000 - 249,999)	7,059	16.0	1,997	4.5	162	24,333,340	44,160
Group III (cities 50,000 - 99,999)	6,473	15.1	1,691	3.9	361	24,821,096	42,875
Group IV (cities 25,000 - 49,999)	4,725	12.3	1,205	3.1	604	21,033,985	38,465
Group V (cities 10,000 - 24,999)	4,111	9.8	1,166	2.8	1,344	21,276,079	41,752
Group VI (cities under 10,000)¹	4,420	7.4	1,297	2.2	5,380	17,725,023	60,023
Metropolitan counties¹	14,950	10.6	3,576	2.5	943	54,619,022	140,619
Nonmetropolitan counties¹	2,152	5.7	596	1.6	1,492	19,864,720	37,672

¹ Includes universities and colleges, state police agencies, and/or other agencies to which no population is attributed.