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FBI Reports 2023 Saw 10-Year High of Assaults on Officers
Agencies providing data to LEOKA reported 79,091 officers were assaulted in 2023. Most officer assaults occurred when responding to simple assaults against a non-officer (6,783 incidents), followed by drug/narcotic violations (4,879).
May 15, 2024
Patrol
New York Seeing Rise in Subway Assaults on Officers
The release of the stats come amid growing concern over an increase in transit violence in the city, with reports of riders punched, shoved, or slashed on the rise in recent weeks.
February 19, 2021
Command
Assaults on LAPD Officers Up 156% Over Last Year, Chief Says
During a meeting with the city's civilian-led Police Commission, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said there were 282 felony assaults against his officers this year, compared with 110 in the same period last year, figures he called "troubling."
September 30, 2020
Patrol
Assaults on NYPD Officers Hit Record Pace
“Everyone wants to fight,” said one 28-year-old female officer on the Upper West Side who was recently injured while cuffing a shoplifting suspect.
February 12, 2024
Manhattan District Attorney's Office
Patrol
North Carolina Legislators Consider Bill Toughening Penalties for Assaults on Officers
Dubbed Conner's Law—for NC State Trooper Kevin Conner, who was shot and killed during a traffic stop in October 2018—the proposed legislation would increase the classification of an assault on a law enforcement officer from a Class E felony to a Class D felony.
March 7, 2019
Patrol
Assaults Against CBP Officers Up 45% in 2017
CBP recorded 847 assaults against its officers in the just-finished fiscal year, compared to 585 in the previous year, government data said.
December 6, 2017
Patrol
Crowd Assaults Maine Officers with Fireworks
Portland police spokesperson David Singer said in a press release Tuesday that an estimated 300 people gathered around Kennedy Park around 9 p.m. where officers were targeted and shot at with fireworks when they tried to break up the crowd.
July 7, 2021
Fireworks
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NYPD Officers Under Attack: Assaults Up 41% This Year
Officers believe the shocking trend reflects a growing disrespect for police, and a building sentiment among criminals that fighting an officer will go unpunished.
October 14, 2024
Patrol
Group Assaults NYPD Officers with Glass Bottles
The group assaulting the officers included members of a Dominican gang called the Trinitarios
August 2, 2022
Patrol
Attacks on LAPD Officers Up 42 Percent Over Last Year
Assaults on LAPD officers are up 42 percent from the same period last year, bringing the total to 97 attacks, Beck said. Officer involved shootings are up by 40 percent.
June 28, 2011
Patrol
LAPD Watchdog Questions Chief On Police Shootings
The rise in Los Angeles police shootings isn't necessarily connected to the rise in assaults on officers, the Los Angeles Police Commission's independent monitor asserts in a new report.
July 1, 2012
Patrol
FBI LEOKA: Thousands More Officers Were Assaulted in 2020 than in 2019
Based on these reports, there were 4,071 more officers assaulted in 2020 than the 56,034 assaults reported in 2019.
October 20, 2021
Patrol
Leaked FBI Report Shows Anti-Police Politics Spur Some Attacks on Officers
An internal FBI investigation into the spike of attacks on law enforcement has determined that revenge, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the media's reporting on officer-involved shootings, and criticism from politicians, motivates a significant number of assaults on officers, including fatal attacks.
May 5, 2017
Fbi
Command
Report Implies Rise in Attacks on Officers and Increased Armed Suspect Contacts Led to Doubling of Phoenix Police OIS Numbers
The report states that there was an increase in officers encountering subjects who were armed with firearms or simulated weapons, in addition to a jump in the number of assaults against officers both in Phoenix and throughout the Valley.
April 19, 2019
Patrol
LA Task Force Chasing Suspects Who Tried to Kill Officers During Riots
During a Monday press conference, the Safe L.A. Task Force reported that it is seeking information on suspects accused of committing five cases of attempted murder of officers, 139 assaults on officers and civilians, 14 batteries on officers, and 10 arson crimes.
June 29, 2020
Safe La
Procedures & Policies
(Video) How to Reverse the Trend of De-Policing in America
Kevin Davis discusses the trend of de-policing in America, including data on increasing crime where de-policing has taken place and assaults on officers in areas where police have withdrawn from proactive policing.
July 31, 2019
Kevin Davis discusses with POLICE Contributing Web Editor Doug Wyllie the trend of de-policing in America.
Patrol
FBI Asks Public to Help ID Capitol Rioters Who Attacked Officers
The FBI’s Washington Field Office has released new information and videos of suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal officers during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and is seeking the public’s help to identify them.
March 18, 2021
Screen shot from FBI video of attack on officers during Capitol riot.
Patrol
Albuquerque PD Responds to Critics of Shooting Policy
"New Mexico is consistently in the top ten of the states with the highest number of assaults on police officers," said Albuquerque Chief Public Safety Officer Darren White.
June 15, 2010
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