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“Through the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Data Collection, the FBI provides data and training that helps keep law enforcement officers safe as they protect the nation’s communities. The goal is to provide relevant, high quality, potentially lifesaving information to law enforcement agencies focusing on why an incident occurred, as opposed to what occurred during the incident, with the hope of preventing future incidents. The data collected is analyzed by the LEOKA team and the results are incorporated into the officer safety awareness training the FBI provides for partner agencies. 

LEOKA’S Three-Tier Approach

LEOKA has a three-tier approach in order to fulfill its mission and promote officer safety awareness to the law enforcement community nationwide:

▪ Data collection: Data on line-of-duty deaths and assaults are collected from participating agencies across the country through the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, and the recent expansion of the data collection methods are providing even more facts that can be studied by experts and officer safety trainers in order to tailor training to real world circumstances. The data are also published annually in the Bureau’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report.

▪ Research: Over the years, researchers led by the LEOKA Data Collection have been conducting indepth research using UCR data collected regarding incidents in which officers are killed or assaulted. The published research gives officers a sharper understanding of what types of scenarios and circumstances have resulted in fatalities and assaults. These articles and publications also contain information obtained through extensive interviews with officers and offenders involved in critical incidents to develop lessons learned, trends and curriculum development for the FBI’s Officer Safety Awareness Training (OSAT).

▪ Training: The objective of the Bureau’s OSAT, which has been provided to thousands of our law enforcement partners in the U.S. and abroad, is to assist law enforcement managers, trainers, and personnel with identifying issues and circumstances that may contribute to officer deaths and assaults and help prevent them. Data has shown an increase in ambushes on our nation’s law enforcement officers. As a result, LEOKA trainers are studying the data with the purpose of shaping future training to help reverse this trend with information and education.

LEOKA Criteria

The data collected under the auspices of the LEOKA Data Collection involves law enforcement officers who meet a certain set of criteria established by the FBI.

General Criteria

The publishable data pertains to felonious deaths, accidental deaths, and assaults of duly sworn city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement officers who, at the time of the incident, met the following criteria:

▪ Wore/carried a badge (ordinarily)

▪ Carried a firearm (ordinarily)

▪ Were duly sworn and had full arrest powers

▪ Were members of a law enforcement agency

▪ Were acting in an official capacity, whether on or off duty, at the time of the incident

▪ If killed, the deaths were directly related to the injuries received during the incidentes.” 

Source (adapted): Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI. Available at: https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbiservices-and-information/ucr/leoka Accessed on: September 08, 2025.