May 12, 2026 - Clarksburg, West Virginia—On Monday, May 11, 2026, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program released the "Officers Killed and Assaulted in the Line of Duty, 2025" special report and data from the Law Enforcement Employee Counts on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE).

“Officers Killed and Assaulted in the Line of Duty, 2025” provides preliminary counts of law enforcement officers killed and assaulted in 2025, as well as an in-depth analysis of law enforcement officers who were killed or assaulted from 2016 through 2025, based on the data voluntarily provided by law enforcement agencies to the FBI’s UCR Program.

In 2025, 53 officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty. That is fewer than the number of officers feloniously killed annually in the previous two years; however, the rate of assaults against officers increased from 2023 to 2025. Firearms were the most reported weapon used in fatal incidents.

Information about offenders of officer felonious killings in 2025 show there were 49 offenders reported for the felonious deaths. Of these offenders, 95.7 percent were male, 64.4 percent were white, and 29 offenders were reported to have a prior criminal record.

For each of the 10 years under consideration, the South region had the most line-of-duty deaths; however, there was a 25 percent decrease in the deaths in that region in 2025 (21 deaths) compared to 2024 (28 deaths).   

Agencies reported 90,178 officer assaults in 2025 indicating a rate of 13.8 assaults per 100 officers, marking the highest officer assault rate in the past 10 years.

After reaching a 10-year high in 2023 (517 officers), the number of officers assaulted and injured by firearms steadily decreased in the past two years to 470 officers in 2024 and 445 officers in 2025.

Most accidental deaths of law enforcement officers from 2021 to 2025 can be attributed to motor vehicle accidents.

Also released today was the 2025 information from the Law Enforcement Employee Counts Data Collection. Law enforcement agencies provide these counts to the FBI annually and account for all full-time sworn law enforcement officers and civilian employees. This information may be used by city, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to establish manpower needs, and to provide effective enforcement and protection.

The full report is available on the CDE. 

Source: FBI