The FBI is supposed to track how police use force – years later, it's falling well short | US news
More than half a decade after Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson were killed by police, the public is still unable to access this information for the majority of US police departments, raising concerns about the ability of the nationâs top law enforcement agency to institute even the barest transparency reforms. In 2015, the Guardian and the Washington Post began tracking killings by police, leaning on local news coverage. Both efforts represented an embarrassment for James Comey, the then FBI director, who called it âunacceptableâ that the FBI did not have i...
Source: theguardian.com