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Friday, August 12th, 2016

Justice Department to Streamline Tracking of Police Killings

Author:     CHARLIE SAVAGE
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     AUG. 9, 2016
 Link: Justice Department to Streamline Tracking of Police Killings
Stephan:   Believe it or not up until now it has been very difficult to get solid numbers on how many people in the U.S. are killed by police. There has been enormous resistance by law enforcement lobby groups aided and abetted by the NRA to actually doing this research. The Obama Administration is now changing that. I consider this very good news.
Michael Brown Sr., center, addressed a crowd during a memorial ceremony in Ferguson, Mo., on Tuesday marking two years since the death of his son, Michael Brown. Credit David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP

Michael Brown Sr., center, addressed a crowd during a memorial ceremony in Ferguson, Mo., on Tuesday marking two years since the death of his son, Michael Brown.
Credit David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is moving forward with a plan to better track killings by police officers, as heightened national scrutiny of such deaths has reinforced criticism of its reliance on self-reporting by state and local law enforcement agencies.

 In a notice published in the Federal Register this week, the Justice Department said it would ask law enforcement agencies and medical examiner’s offices to fill out forms when there is a news report or another indication that a person died while in police custody.
 Under the proposed system, which would cover 19,450 state and local law enforcement agencies and about 685 medical examiner’s or coroner’s offices, they […]

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