Line of Fire: A Study of Selected Felonius Assaults on Law Enforcement Officers

摘要

General information concerning assaults, both fatal and nonfatal, on duly swornlaw enforcement officers is collected by the FBI and relased annually in the publication Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted. The data included on nonfatal assaults address circumstances surrounding the incidents, weapons used, victim officers' assignments, time of occurrence, and whether injury resulted. This information is reported monthly by the nearly 17,000 law enforcement agency participants in the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. This study, however, views a selection of these assault cases with much more specificity, and interviews with 52 victim officers and 42 offenders provide an in-depth picture of the circumstances surrounding the incidents.