Table 6

Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Age Group of Victim Officer, 1998–2007

Age 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
Under 25	35	7	1	5	6	1	2	3	2	1	7
25–30	115	18	10	12	17	11	13	9	9	9	7
31–35	126	10	14	10	13	16	9	12	15	10	17
36–40	103	7	9	9	15	12	8	9	9	17	8
41–45	61	11	2	4	3	6	10	6	12	3	4
46–50	51	3	3	6	5	6	5	6	7	3	7
51–55	34	3	1	3	7	3	2	6	1	4	4
56–60	9	1	0	0	2	1	1	3	0	0	1
Over 60	13	1	2	2	2	0	2	1	0	1	2
Not reported	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Average age	37	35	36	37	37	37	38	39	37	38	37

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