The FBI released the below
information:
According to statistics
reported to the FBI, 60,105 law enforcement officers were assaulted while
performing their duties in 2020. These assaults were reported to the FBI by
9,895 law enforcement agencies. Based on these reports, there were 4,071 more
officers assaulted in 2020 than the 56,034 assaults reported in 2019. Data
regarding these assaults were released today in the Law
Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) portion of the
FBI’s Law Enforcement Data
Explorer.
Injuries and Weapons
- Of
the 60,105 officers who were assaulted in
2020, 18,568 (30.9%) sustained injuries.
- 44,421 officers
were assaulted with personal weapons (e.g., hands, fists, or feet); 25.8%
of these officers were injured.
- 2,744 officers were
assaulted with firearms; 6.1% of these officers were injured.
- 1,180 officers were
assaulted with knives or other cutting instruments; 9.7% of these officers
were injured.
- The remaining
11,760 officers were assaulted with other types of dangerous weapons;
16.8% of these officers were injured.
Circumstances
Of all officers who were
assaulted in 2020, agencies reported officers were involved in these
circumstances at the scenes of the assaults:
- Responding to
disturbance calls such as family quarrels or bar fights (29.6%)
- Attempting other
arrests (16.1%)
- Handling, transporting,
or maintaining custody of prisoners (12.6%)
- Investigating
suspicious persons or circumstances (8.8%)
- Traffic pursuits or
stops (8.4%)
- Civil disorder,
such as mass disobedience or riots (4.1%)
- Handling persons
with mental illness (3.9%)
- Burglaries in
progress or pursuing burglary suspects (1.3%)
- Ambush situations
(0.8%)
- Robberies in
progress or pursuing robbery suspects (0.8%)
- All other types of
circumstances (13.6%)
2020 assault data tables and
companion documents are exclusively located on the FBI’s Law
Enforcement Data Explorer (a subset of the Crime Data Explorer).
Data and statistics concerning
officers feloniously killed, officers accidentally killed, and federal officers
killed and/or assaulted in 2020 were previously released to the Law Enforcement Data
Explorer in May 2021. With today’s release of assault data, all
2020 LEOKA data are now available.
Previous editions of the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted publication contain data from 1996 to 2019.
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