Every day in America, people are killed or injured by police.
Sometimes they die in swarms of police bullets
or in chokeholds or jailhouse beatings. Sometimes their hearts give out
after being shot with a Taser or their lungs are crushed beneath the
weight of grappling officers.
Yet, no one knows for sure just how many or how often such incidents occur.
Even in an age of exhaustive monitoring of
everything from public school competency to national park attendance,
there is no single government agency tasked with collating data on how
often police injure citizens.
Critics and many law enforcement leaders believe
that lack of data collection has created a massive blind spot in terms
of effective police reform and policies.
"We need to collect actual, accurate and complete information about
policing in this country so that we have informed debates about things
that matter enormously," FBI Director James Comey said during a recent
gathering of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in San
Diego.
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