Discussion Forum 3: Mapping Police Violence

Law enforcement agencies across the country have failed to provide us with statistics on police killings. In fact, although 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act mandated the attorney general to “acquire data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers” across the nation and to “publish an annual summary of the data acquired,” such data collection efforts faltered. There is no official count of the number of people killed by police. In recent years, in the response to high-profile police killings of unarmed Black men and women which captured the Nation’s attention and the dearth of reliable federal data, various organizations have begun tracking individual shootings by local police across the nation. Visit one such effort to track police killings:

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

Explore the data contained on the site and report back your thoughts on this tracking effort. Answer these questions: Why do we need to know the statistics on police killings? Why such data have not been collected officially by the FBI or any other federal agency?

Please leave at least three comments. One is your original contribution. And two comments are you replies to your classmates. Deadline: 09/19/21, 11:59 pm. 

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