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Assaults on Federal Officers | |||||||||||||||||||
Region, Geographic Division, and State by Type of Weapon, 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||
Area | Total | Firearm | Knife or cutting instrument |
Blunt object |
Bomb | Vehicle | Personal weapons |
Threat | Other | ||||||||||
Total[1] | 346 | 31 | 14 | 23 | 0 | 47 | 172 | 43 | 16 | ||||||||||
NORTHEAST | 34 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
New England | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Connecticut | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Maine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Massachusetts | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
New Hampshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Rhode Island | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Vermont | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Middle Atlantic | 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
New Jersey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
New York | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
Pennsylvania | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
MIDWEST | 47 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 8 | 2 | ||||||||||
East North Central | 20 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||||
Illinois | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Indiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Michigan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||||
Ohio | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Wisconsin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
West North Central | 27 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
Iowa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Kansas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Minnesota | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Missouri | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
Nebraska | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
North Dakota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
South Dakota | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
SOUTH | 143 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 77 | 16 | 10 | ||||||||||
South Atlantic | 81 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 50 | 6 | 5 | ||||||||||
Delaware | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
District of Columbia | 46 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Florida | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
Georgia | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Maryland | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
North Carolina | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
South Carolina | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Virginia | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
West Virginia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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