content/crimes/leoka.yml
caveats:
- heading: General criteria
text: This data concerns duly sworn city, university and college, county, state, and tribal law enforcement officers who were assaulted in the line of duty.
- heading: How these crimes are counted
text: Law enforcement agencies report the number of assaults resulting in injuries to their officers or instances in which an offender used a weapon that could have caused injury or death. Law enforcement agencies report assaults not causing injury if they involved more than verbal abuse or minor resistance to arrest.
- heading: Avoid rankings or comparisons
text: Since crime is a sociological phenomenon influenced by a variety of factors, the FBI [discourages ranking locations or making comparisons](https://ucr.fbi.gov/ucr-statistics-their-proper-use) as a way of measuring law enforcement effectiveness. Some of this data may not be comparable to previous years because of differing levels of participation over time.
- heading: Detailed assault data
text: While the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program has collected aggregate assault data for more than 50 years, the program began collecting data for assaults with injury in 2013.
links:
- url: https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka
text: "Uniform Crime Reporting Program: Law Enforcement Officers Killed and
Assaulted (LEOKA)"
- url: https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka-resources
text: LEOKA Resources
- url: https://leoka.org/
text: Center for the Study of Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted