FBI resists calls to reform voluntary reporting system for police killings

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

FBI resists calls to reform voluntary reporting system for police killings

Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland in New York
Monday 28 September 2015 19.14 BST

The FBI will continue to resist pressure from legislators and activists for the creation of a fully comprehensive count of all killings by American police officers, the bureau’s director signalled on Monday.

Writing as the FBI released its annual crime statistics, James Comey said an existing voluntary system, under which police departments around the country choose whether or not to submit data on homicides by their officers, will carry on.

Comey said the FBI would try to collect more information – but gave no specific details about how this would be done.

He said of the current information collected: “As helpful as this information is, however, we need more law enforcement agencies to submit their justifiable homicide data so that we can better understand what is happening across the country.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/28/fbi-police-killings-voluntary-reporting-system

[niyad]

1. colour me sooooooo not surprised!

[valerief]

2. Thank you, Guardian, for telling us this and all the wonderful reporting you do.

But this is a police state.

[Ed Suspicious]

3. Yeah? Fuck them.

[Downwinder]

4. They can capture all our communications

but they can't tell how many people they kill. Sounds like the Military in Iraq.

[TheKentuckian]

5. It isn't a cannot but a will not. They really don't want to, this is the path they want for us.

They just can't come out and say it at this juncture as it would be premature.