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Table 60 | ||||||||
Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted Region, Geographic Division, and State by Type of Weapon, 2002—Continued. | ||||||||
Area | Total | Firearm | Knife or cutting instrument |
Other dangerous weapon |
Personal weapons |
Number of reporting agencies |
Population covered |
Number of officers employed |
South Atlantic—Continued | ||||||||
Virginia | 1,304 | 33 | 23 | 390 | 858 | 261 | 7,234,485 | 14,529 |
West Virginia[1] | ||||||||
East South Central | 3,123 | 172 | 89 | 712 | 2,150 | 775 | 12,291,204 | 28,939 |
Alabama | 370 | 13 | 11 | 54 | 292 | 224 | 3,586,846 | 7,787 |
Kentucky | 327 | 14 | 11 | 37 | 265 | 17 | 1,289,107 | 2,418 |
Mississippi | 290 | 13 | 4 | 48 | 225 | 99 | 1,629,539 | 3,562 |
Tennessee | 2,136 | 132 | 63 | 573 | 1,368 | 435 | 5,785,712 | 15,172 |
West South Central | 8,084 | 327 | 142 | 934 | 6,681 | 1,580 | 31,111,168 | 69,224 |
Arkansas | 295 | 20 | 11 | 70 | 194 | 174 | 2,423,110 | 4,706 |
Louisiana | 1,884 | 31 | 13 | 88 | 1,752 | 154 | 3,607,093 | 13,739 |
Oklahoma | 843 | 44 | 14 | 132 | 653 | 301 | 3,493,714 | 6,305 |
Texas | 5,062 | 232 | 104 | 644 | 4,082 | 951 | 21,587,251 | 44,474 |
WEST | 13,251 | 482 | 253 | 1,840 | 10,676 | 1,454 | 56,938,276 | 121,803 |
Mountain | 4,537 | 204 | 102 | 692 | 3,539 | 642 | 16,552,694 | 33,430 |
Arizona | 2,164 | 112 | 51 | 318 | 1,683 | 84 | 5,143,638 | 10,451 |
Colorado | 845 | 35 | 23 | 147 | 640 | 177 | 4,132,248 | 9,378 |
Idaho | 191 | 6 | 6 | 31 | 148 | 113 | 1,309,851 | 2,355 |
Montana[1] | ||||||||
Nevada | 452 | 15 | 4 | 48 | 385 | 29 | 1,787,535 | 3,255 |
New Mexico | 571 | 27 | 15 | 125 | 404 | 66 | 1,398,142 | 2,797 |
Utah | 240 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 214 | 11 | 2,393,988 | 4,144 |
Wyoming | 74 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 65 | 62 | 487,292 | 1,050 |
Pacific | 8,714 | 278 | 151 | 1,148 | 7,137 | 812 | 40,385,582 | 88,373 |
Alaska | 115 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 83 | 30 | 598,264 | 1,058 |
California | 6,893 | 230 | 115 | 936 | 5,612 | 456 | 30,390,046 | 72,948 |
Hawaii | 223 | 8 | 7 | 26 | 182 | 3 | 1,092,127 | 2,414 |
Oregon | 354 | 4 | 6 | 40 | 304 | 98 | 2,396,207 | 3,423 |
Washington | 1,129 | 29 | 17 | 127 | 956 | 225 | 5,908,938 | 8,530 |
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS KILLED AND ASSAULTED, 2002
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