Table 2

Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Population Group of Victim Officer's Agency, 1998–2007

Population group	Total	1998	1999	2000	2001¹	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Number of victim officers	549	61	42	51	70	56	52	57	55	48	57
Group I (cities 250,000 and over)	105	14	8	8	13	6	9	15	12	8	12
Group II (cities 100,000–249,999)	50	4	1	4	7	6	4	6	6	4	8
Group III (cities 50,000–99,999)	26	2	1	1	1	3	3	4	4	2	5
Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999)	23	4	3	0	1	1	5	2	2	3	2
Group V (cities 10,000–24,999)	36	5	2	3	6	5	2	5	2	3	3
Group VI (cities under 10,000)	70	10	8	9	7	6	5	7	10	3	5
Metropolitan counties	97	5	5	11	15	11	10	8	6	15	11
Nonmetropolitan counties	62	3	8	10	9	8	9	4	4	3	4
State	42	3	5	3	4	4	5	3	5	4	6
Federal	13	6	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	1	0
Puerto Rico and Other Outlying Areas	25	5	0	2	6	4	0	3	2	2	1

¹The 72 deaths that resulted from the events of September 11, 2001, are not included in this table.