Table 5

Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed
Month of Incident, 2000–2009

Month	Total	2000	2001¹	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Number of victim officers	536	51	70	56	52	57	55	48	58	41	48
January	44	4	3	8	3	4	6	1	6	8	1
February	41	3	7	3	3	6	3	6	5	4	1
March	51	5	7	4	4	6	6	5	8	0	6
April	44	3	3	4	9	6	6	2	2	1	8
May	43	2	6	7	6	1	6	6	7	2	0
June	52	7	7	1	7	7	3	4	4	6	6
July	47	5	7	5	4	5	4	0	6	4	7
August	62	5	9	7	6	8	7	7	5	4	4
September	46	4	7	4	1	5	3	5	7	6	4
October	29	5	3	2	1	3	2	6	4	1	2
November	31	2	6	7	1	2	7	1	0	1	4
December	46	6	5	4	7	4	2	5	4	4	5

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