Table 48

Law Enforcement Officers Accidentally Killed
Region, Geographic Division, and State, 2000–2009

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Area	Total	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Number of victim officers	728	83	76	75	81	82	67	66	83	68	47
NORTHEAST	78	13	5	5	10	10	7	5	6	11	6
New England	19	6	2	0	3	0	2	1	2	1	2
Connecticut	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Maine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Massachusetts	11	4	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	2
New Hampshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rhode Island	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vermont	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Middle Atlantic	59	7	3	5	7	10	5	4	4	10	4
New Jersey	15	1	1	1	3	1	3	1	2	2	0
New York	25	4	0	3	2	5	1	2	2	3	3
Pennsylvania	19	2	2	1	2	4	1	1	0	5	1
MIDWEST	119	19	12	10	12	15	13	14	11	5	8
East North Central	82	14	7	4	7	12	9	14	5	5	5
Illinois	23	3	0	2	3	5	3	6	1	0	0
Indiana	19	2	3	1	0	2	3	2	2	2	2
Michigan	16	4	1	0	2	3	3	2	0	0	1
Ohio	16	2	3	1	1	1	0	3	2	2	1
Wisconsin	8	3	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1
West North Central	37	5	5	6	5	3	4	0	6	0	3
Iowa	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kansas	5	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Minnesota	5	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
Missouri	22	0	5	4	2	2	4	0	3	0	2
Nebraska	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
North Dakota	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Dakota	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
SOUTH	345	35	39	39	38	39	30	26	46	32	21
South Atlantic	158	16	16	21	18	16	12	11	22	14	12
Delaware	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
District of Columbia	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Florida	41	2	7	2	4	8	3	2	8	4	1
Georgia	28	4	0	2	5	3	3	3	3	3	2
Maryland	17	5	0	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	0
North Carolina	30	2	6	6	4	2	1	0	4	2	3
South Carolina	17	2	0	5	2	0	3	1	1	1	2
Virginia	17	0	1	2	1	0	2	5	2	1	3
West Virginia	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
East South Central	64	9	8	6	8	9	4	6	6	4	4
Alabama	17	0	1	2	1	4	2	1	3	2	1
Kentucky	6	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	0
Mississippi	14	2	2	1	2	1	0	1	2	1	2
Tennessee	27	6	5	2	4	4	2	2	0	1	1
West South Central	123	10	15	12	12	14	14	9	18	14	5
Arkansas	11	1	1	1	2	0	2	1	0	2	1
Louisiana	20	4	1	1	4	1	2	2	4	0	1
Oklahoma	12	2	1	1	0	0	3	1	0	3	1
Texas	80	3	12	9	6	13	7	5	14	9	2
WEST	168	15	19	19	18	15	14	20	19	17	12
Mountain	68	5	9	9	4	5	3	9	10	6	8
Arizona	21	2	1	3	1	3	2	4	2	2	1
Colorado	8	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	0
Idaho	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Montana	7	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	1
Nevada	7	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	2
New Mexico	14	0	4	2	0	0	0	1	4	1	2
Utah	7	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Wyoming	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Pacific	100	10	10	10	14	10	11	11	9	11	4
Alaska	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
California	77	9	5	6	10	7	10	9	7	11	3
Hawaii	5	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	0
Oregon	7	1	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Washington	9	0	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	0	1
PUERTO RICO AND OTHER OUTLYING AREAS	18	1	1	2	3	3	3	1	1	3	0
American Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guam	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Mariana Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Puerto Rico	16	1	1	2	3	3	3	1	0	2	0
U.S. Virgin Islands	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0