Table 66

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Population Group of Victim Officer's Agency, 2007

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	59,201	11.4	15,479	3.0	10,856	231,763,568	517,875
Group I (cities 250,000 and over)	14,894	16.2	3,811	4.1	62	39,411,452	91,836
Group II (cities 100,000–249,999)	7,452	16.6	1,986	4.4	161	24,321,839	44,869
Group III (cities 50,000–99,999)	6,847	14.9	1,835	4.0	385	26,523,661	45,925
Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999)	4,668	11.6	1,263	3.1	633	21,900,150	40,409
Group V (cities 10,000–24,999)	4,340	9.9	1,087	2.5	1,403	22,292,599	43,889
Group VI (cities under 10,000)¹	4,375	6.8	1,263	2.0	5,623	18,525,989	64,135
Metropolitan counties¹	14,548	10.0	3,708	2.6	978	57,670,878	145,239
Nonmetropolitan counties¹	2,077	5.0	526	1.3	1,611	21,117,000	41,573

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