Table 5

Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Month of Incident, 1999–2008

Month	Total	1999	2000	2001¹	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Number of victim officers	530	42	51	70	56	52	57	55	48	58	41
January	47	4	4	3	8	3	4	6	1	6	8
February	43	3	3	7	3	3	6	3	6	5	4
March	51	6	5	7	4	4	6	6	5	8	0
April	41	5	3	3	4	9	6	6	2	2	1
May	46	3	2	6	7	6	1	6	6	7	2
June	48	2	7	7	1	7	7	3	4	4	6
July	43	3	5	7	5	4	5	4	0	6	4
August	59	1	5	9	7	6	8	7	7	5	4
September	43	1	4	7	4	1	5	3	5	7	6
October	37	10	5	3	2	1	3	2	6	4	1
November	28	1	2	6	7	1	2	7	1	0	1
December	44	3	6	5	4	7	4	2	5	4	4

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