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Table 60
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted Region, Geographic Division, and State by Type of Weapon, 2002
Area	Total	Firearm	Knife or cutting instrument	Other dangerous weapon	Personal weapons	Number of reporting agencies	Population covered	Number of officers employed
Total	58,066	1,889	1,056	8,326	46,795	9,987	216,342,701	482,762
Percent distribution	100.0	3.3	1.8	14.3	80.6
NORTHEAST	7,564	212	108	1,090	6,154	1,790	29,544,738	73.853
New England	1,754	24	31	316	1,383	424	7,226,097	16,111
Connecticut	507	6	8	75	418	96	2,871,712	6,540
Maine	259	2	3	23	231	132	1,291,128	1,861
Massachusetts	337	4	12	38	283	47	1,223,374	3,852
New Hampshire	219	1	2	56	160	106	776.326	1,373
Rhode Island	432	11	6	124	291	43	1,063,557	2,485
Vermont[1]
Middle Atlantic	5,810	188	77	774	4.771	1,366	22,318,641	57,742
New Jersey	2,999	39	44	460	2.456	480	8,315.740	21,581
New York	443	3	7	35	398	251	6,075,367	17,869
Pennsylvania	2,368	146	26	279	1,917	635	7,927,534	18,292
MIDWEST	8,930	230	181	960	7.559	2,798	41,763.937	82,934
East North Central	4,167	113	70	417	3.567	1,266	24,138,342	48,751
Illinois[1]
Indiana	1,214	33	13	68	1,100	169	4,639,092	7,746
Michigan	1,504	58	44	218	1,184	575	9,856,504	20,793
Ohio	874	11	6	87	770	231	5,130,275	9.779
Wisconsin	575	11	7	44	513	291	4,512,471	10,433
West North Central	4,763	117	111	543	3,992	1,532	17,625,595	34,183
Iowa	561	11	23	96	431	229	2,914,512	4,429
Kansas	1,245	21	22	93	1,109	298	2,576.967	6.514
Minnesota	81	3	5	9	64	283	4,176,303	6,697
Missouri	2,592	77	52	311	2,152	504	5,497,696	11,948
Nebraska	180	5	5	27	143	137	1,604,508	3,227
North Dakota	68	0	0	5	63	67	568.709	925
South Dakota	36	0	4	2	30	14	286,900	443
SOUTH	28,321	965	514	4.436	22,406	3,945	88,095,750	204,172
South Atlantic	17,114	466	283	2,790	13,575	1,590	44,693,378	106,009
Delaware	419	6	5	90	318	50	806,717	2,205
District of Columbia[2]	17	0	1	4	12	2	0	368
Florida	8,628	192	151	1,441	6,844	396	16,186,485	39,127
Georgia	1,068	66	22	133	847	325	6,657,492	16.530
Maryland	3,096	59	44	416	2.577	118	4,503,859	11,755
North Carolina	2,092	83	29	244	1,736	338	7,167,448	16,650
South Carolina	490	27	8	72	383	100	2,136,892	4,845
Data for Illinois, Montana, Vermont, and West Virginia were not available for inclusion in this table. The figure represents the number of assaults on officers reported by the Metro Transit Police and the National Zoological Park.