Table 79
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted and Injured with Firearms or Knives/Other Cutting Instruments
Age Group of Victim Officer1 by Race and Sex, 2013
Age group | Total | Race | Sex | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
White | Black |
Asian/ Pacific Islander |
American Indian/ Alaska Native |
Race not reported |
Male | Female | ||
Number of victim officers | 78 | 69 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 75 | 3 |
Under 25 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
25–30 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
31–35 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
36–40 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 |
41–45 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
46–50 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
51–55 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
56–60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Over 60 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Not reported | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
- 1The average age of the victim officers is 37 years.
- NOTE: Assault with injury data in this table reflects only a subset of those incidents reported to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. For more information in reference to this data collection, see Detailed Assault Data.