What official reports (DOJ, Capitol Police, inspector general) document the injuries sustained by officers on January 6?

1. DOJ public estimates and prosecutorial statements

The Department of Justice, through its public reporting and prosecutors handling the cases, put the number of officers injured at about 140 and catalogued injuries including traumatic brain injuries, lacerations, crushed spinal discs and chemical‑spray exposure; the DOJ’s investigative materials and public statements have also stressed that many officers described lifelong physical and psychological trauma ^[1]. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. posted periodic summaries of the investigation noting roughly 140 assaulted officers and that over 250 people had engaged in assaults on law‑enforcement personnel, and DOJ prosecutors have asserted privately and publicly that the true number of injured officers may be higher than early tallies ^{[3] [4]}.

2. U.S. Capitol Police reporting and union claims

The U.S. Capitol Police and its union provided immediate counts and case examples: several sources, including a Capitol Police officers’ union statement and compilations, reported about 138 officers injured (73 USCP and 65 MPD in one widely cited breakdown) and described severe individual injuries—cracked ribs, smashed spinal discs, loss of an eye, concussive symptoms and at least one officer later hospitalized—while also noting that many officers remained out of work months later because of their injuries ^[2]. The union and congressional testimony from named officers have been used as primary sources in official committee work and later media summaries ^{[2] [6]}.

3. Inspector‑general findings about contributing operational failures

Inspector‑general work related to January 6 has focused less on creating a single casualty tally and more on the operational failures that amplified officer risk: the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Capitol Police concluded, for example, that the simultaneous discovery of explosive devices on the Capitol perimeter diverted manpower and helped create conditions in which officers were overwhelmed ^{[5] [2]}. Separate inspector‑general reviews tied to the Department of Justice/DHS examined other angles—such as whether undercover FBI sources prompted violence—and found no evidence that the FBI authorized sources to engage in or incite the lawbreaking that day ^{[6] [7]}; those findings address responsibility and context rather than producing a new injuries ledger.

4. Discrepancies, later deaths and the limits of official tallies

Major news organizations and government offices have recorded that some officers later died, including deaths attributed to strokes and suicides in the months and years after January 6, and that the totals reported in early reviews may understate the full scope of harm; the Associated Press noted “more than 140” wounded with several later deaths including suicide, and DOJ officials have acknowledged the likelihood of undercounting ^{[8] [4]}. Official tallies differ because of differing inclusion rules (which agencies and time windows count), redactions in court filings, and the fact that many injuries—especially psychological trauma and delayed medical consequences—are harder to capture in an immediate incident report ^{[8] [1] [4]}.

5. What the official records do and do not resolve

Official DOJ statements, the U.S. Capitol Police data and inspector‑general reports together establish that a large number of officers were injured and that systemic failures contributed to their vulnerability, but no single, universally accepted government document provides a definitive, exhaustive roster of every officer injury and its long‑term medical outcome; public records, committee reports and media archives must be read together to approximate the scale and severity of harm, and several sources caution that the real toll may exceed early public estimates ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}.