Admin l Wednesday, October 20, 2021
WASHINGTON, United States – Not less than 60, 105 policemen were assaulted in the United States of America in 2020. But out of the 60, 105 officers assaulted, 18, 568 men were injured.
This was based on the 2020 statistics for Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted in the line of duty released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI.
According to the FBI, these assaults were reported to the FBI by 9,895 law enforcement agencies, adding that based on these reports, there were 4,071 more officers assaulted in 2020 than the 56,034 assaults reported in 2019.
According to the FBI 44,421 officers were assaulted with personal weapons (e.g., hands, fists, or feet); 25.8% of these officers were injured ; 2,744 officers were assaulted with firearms; 6.1% of these officers were injured; 1,180 officers were assaulted with knives or other cutting instruments; 9.7% of these officers were injured; the remaining 11,760 officers were assaulted with other types of dangerous weapons; 16.8% of these officers were injured.
The officers were assaulted while responding to disturbance calls such as family quarrels or bar fights (29.6%); attempting other arrests (16.1%); handling, transporting, or maintaining custody of prisoners (12.6%); investigating suspicious persons or circumstances (8.8%); traffic pursuits or stops (8.4%); Civil disorder, such as mass disobedience or riots (4.1%); handling persons with mental illness (3.9%); burglaries in progress or pursuing burglary suspects (1.3%);ambush situations (0.8%);robberies in progress or pursuing robbery suspects (0.8%) and other types of circumstances (13.6%).
Data and statistics concerning officers feloniously killed, officers accidentally killed, and federal officers killed and/or assaulted in 2020 were previously released to the Law Enforcement Data Explorer in May 2021. With today’s release of assault data, all 2020 LEOKA data are now available.
Previous editions of the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted publication contain data from 1996 to 2019.
