Assaults Committed against Alaska Police Officers, 2002–2011

Authors

• Brad A. Myrstol

Files

Description

This fact sheet presents information reported to the Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS) by Alaska police agencies on the frequency of assaults committed against police officers for the period 2002–2011. Data were extracted from DPS's annual Uniform Crime Reporting publication Crime in Alaska. Aspects of assaults on police examined include rates of assault, percentage of assaults resulting in injury, weapons used in assaults, and officers killed in the line of duty (1960–2011).

Publication Date

3-13-2013

Keywords

Alaska State Troopers, Anchorage Police Department (APD), assault, crime in Alaska, homicide, law enforcement, police, Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), violent crime

Recommended Citation

Myrstol, Brad A., "Assaults Committed against Alaska Police Officers, 2002–2011" (2013). AJSAC Fact Sheet. 6.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_ajsac_fact_sheet/6

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/2597