Table 66

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Population Group of Victim Officer's Agency, 2008

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	58,792	11.3	15,366	3.0	10,110	226,610,703	518,120
Group I (cities 250,000 and over)	16,264	17.2	3,685	3.9	66	41,415,202	94,428
Group II (cities 100,000–249,999)	7,732	16.7	2,130	4.6	167	24,881,629	46,241
Group III (cities 50,000–99,999)	6,262	14.5	1,781	4.1	364	24,823,549	43,328
Group IV (cities 25,000–49,999)	4,298	11.5	1,105	3.0	589	20,174,221	37,454
Group V (cities 10,000–24,999)	3,913	9.2	1,082	2.5	1,352	21,454,796	42,524
Group VI (cities under 10,000)¹	4,238	6.7	1,270	2.0	5,304	17,183,154	63,710
Metropolitan counties¹	14,105	9.4	3,743	2.5	869	57,261,960	149,860
Nonmetropolitan counties¹	1,980	4.9	570	1.4	1,399	19,416,192	40,575

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