Law enforcement officers killed

What this data cannot show

• These are national figures. The FBI serves no state-level police employment data: the state endpoint answers with every field null, so a state figure here would be the national one under a state name.
• Employment counts staff at agencies that reported. A change between years can be a change in which agencies reported rather than in how many officers there are, so the population those agencies served is shown beside every count.
• Officers feloniously killed and officers who died accidentally are counted separately by the FBI and are shown separately here. The collection's own "total officers" field carries the felonious figure alone.
• These are counts of people, and they are small. A change of a few moves a percentage a long way, so no percentage change is shown on them.
• A circumstance category is the reporting agency’s classification, recorded at the time. "Not reported" is frequently the largest category and is shown rather than dropped, because dropping it would make every other share look larger.
• 2026 is not drawn. It stood at 58 deaths when this page was built, against 81 for the whole of 2025, because it is a year to date rather than a year. Drawing it beside complete years would show a fall that is the calendar.
• The circumstances the FBI records are the reporting agency's classification. In 2025 the largest weapon category was Unknown firearm at 24; categories holding one or two deaths are shown as counts and never as a share.