Table 71

Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted
Region, Geographic Division, and State by Type of Weapon, 2008

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Area	Total	Firearm	Knife or other cutting instrument	Other dangerous weapon	Personal weapons	Number of reporting agencies	Population covered	Number of officers employed
Number of victim officers	58,792	2,244	935	8,161	47,452	10,110	226,610,703	518,120
NORTHEAST	8,260	315	145	994	6,806	2,112	34,442,178	87,528
New England	1,762	9	23	216	1,514	434	7,720,330	18,742
Connecticut	757	8	7	115	627	101	3,501,252	8,612
Maine	230	0	4	19	207	132	1,315,497	1,926
Massachusetts	85	0	1	5	79	40	850,083	3,193
New Hampshire	275	0	5	29	241	71	734,918	1,474
Rhode Island	378	0	4	42	332	48	1,050,788	2,583
Vermont	37	1	2	6	28	42	267,792	954
Middle Atlantic	6,498	306	122	778	5,292	1,678	26,721,848	68,786
New Jersey	2,378	29	27	263	2,059	504	8,396,464	24,809
New York	772	7	11	77	677	314	9,193,400	24,162
Pennsylvania	3,348	270	84	438	2,556	860	9,131,984	19,815
MIDWEST	6,961	183	67	688	6,023	2,112	29,947,261	60,697
East North Central	2,937	52	23	235	2,627	661	12,944,642	26,770
Illinois¹
Indiana	1,306	21	10	97	1,178	158	4,697,978	7,955
Michigan¹
Ohio	506	7	7	64	428	134	2,685,350	5,875
Wisconsin	1,125	24	6	74	1,021	369	5,561,314	12,940
West North Central	4,024	131	44	453	3,396	1,451	17,002,619	33,927
Iowa	469	5	5	79	380	231	2,967,083	4,499
Kansas	717	25	11	52	629	92	1,162,711	2,679
Minnesota	198	0	1	11	186	304	4,569,597	7,717
Missouri	2,159	99	24	252	1,784	556	5,800,150	14,293
Nebraska	244	1	1	19	223	81	1,205,381	2,540
North Dakota	76	0	0	7	69	81	611,765	1,045
South Dakota	161	1	2	33	125	106	685,932	1,154
SOUTH	28,455	1,138	484	4,372	22,461	4,262	98,155,784	228,689
South Atlantic	17,733	603	270	2,765	14,095	1,815	52,287,833	124,308
Delaware	644	30	6	127	481	52	871,838	2,296
District of Columbia²	103	0	1	5	97	1		425
Florida	8,049	247	120	1,474	6,208	395	18,283,196	42,885
Georgia	866	49	7	115	695	262	7,578,314	17,920
Maryland	3,844	99	54	367	3,324	130	5,456,159	14,123
North Carolina	2,120	112	42	210	1,756	326	7,883,805	18,851
South Carolina	830	38	18	174	600	378	4,477,742	11,332
Virginia	1,277	28	22	293	934	271	7,736,779	16,476
West Virginia¹
East South Central	3,015	231	64	602	2,118	882	12,977,723	31,461
Alabama	259	19	5	37	198	350	4,437,374	10,775
Kentucky	591	53	7	87	444	5	997,134	1,928
Mississippi	186	11	4	22	149	101	1,674,125	3,775
Tennessee	1,979	148	48	456	1,327	426	5,869,090	14,983
West South Central	7,707	304	150	1,005	6,248	1,565	32,890,228	72,920
Arkansas	302	11	4	33	254	210	2,609,689	5,081
Louisiana	1,693	37	10	290	1,356	88	2,592,386	8,742
Oklahoma	904	53	30	155	666	284	3,476,789	6,660
Texas	4,808	203	106	527	3,972	983	24,211,364	52,437
WEST	15,116	608	239	2,107	12,162	1,624	64,065,480	141,206
Mountain	5,639	256	113	868	4,402	760	20,822,815	41,758
Arizona	2,118	128	51	361	1,578	82	6,339,092	12,740
Colorado	810	34	26	125	625	198	4,613,491	11,136
Idaho	252	11	1	22	218	102	1,505,368	2,652
Montana	247	9	2	40	196	96	922,122	1,389
Nevada	699	28	11	110	550	36	2,600,167	5,217
New Mexico	741	30	14	137	560	71	1,627,847	3,332
Utah	683	16	6	63	598	113	2,686,719	4,104
Wyoming	89	0	2	10	77	62	528,009	1,188
Pacific	9,477	352	126	1,239	7,760	864	43,242,665	99,448
Alaska	287	25	11	42	209	33	673,786	1,218
California	7,639	299	91	1,007	6,242	456	31,697,907	80,273
Hawaii	312	0	2	25	285	3	1,145,204	2,669
Oregon	377	2	2	48	325	144	3,614,911	5,173
Washington	862	26	20	117	699	228	6,110,857	10,115

¹Data for Illinois, Michigan, and West Virginia were not available for inclusion in this table.
²The figures represent the number of assaults on officers reported by the Metro Transit Police.