I am sure they do. Somebody has to collect the data that no doubt exists. The hardest part would be to know who to contact at each police entity. The FBI field offices could figure this out. Seems like they don't want to publish this data.

1) Robust data would be nice, but I'll accept less detailed stats. I'll start with one simple number. Every month, tell me how many people your officers shot. If that is too onerous, your pd probably needs to stop shooting so many people.

2) The federal government has a ton of leverage over local law enforcement. It provides tons of $, logistical support, training, and surplus weapons to local police forces. Most of this support is already contingent on a number of strings.

3) Doing it via consent decrees is less than ideal b/c you don't get a sense of the full sense of the problem when you don't have national data. Also, federal investigations and consent decrees tend to get imposed after one high profile incident, so you're not necessarily getting data from and monitoring the worst offenders as much as your getting data from the departments that happened to have something happen durring the right part of the news cycle.

Dude this is your idea. I would have the PD do the work gathering all the raw data and not even require the FBI to investigate counting how many times a cop shot someone. They should be busy with other ****.

If you think the FBI is the one receiving reports and this is how you're saving manpower crunching numbers in excel then I'd point out the cdc does all this stuff already for civilians so are clearly the best equipped.

The hardest part of collecting data is knowing who to ask. The FBI has interaction with local police so I figured they would be in best position but the CDC or the census bureau could also get the job done. The point is if the Feds wanted to collect the data it it a trivial task.

Tamir Rice shooting was tragic but reasonable: prosecution experts

The GJ is still on going and they're releasing this stuff to the media? Don't even know what to say at this point.

Oh ffs if true.

When you need a specific answer, you always narrow what is being investigated.

Unless these are just a small number of experts on use of force it's clear the prosecution is blowing the case on purpose. Again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/us...?smid=tw-share

Cops deploy Taser on black council member in city where Sandra Bland was arrested

Because of course it does.

He was probably hoping for this type of response. The police got pawned pretty good here.

Someone needs to teach cops to stop falling for the old "trick them into commiting abuse" trap.

Tamir Rice family attorney says expert reports have 'tainted grand jury process'

I wonder how many of these aren't being reported because they don't happen to Vice Presidents of multinational corporations...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...ops-showed-up/

Proof #496,227,874 that no good deed goes unpunished.

The person making the report was fine. Racist, but whatever. The cops were the problem.

I would like to hear the 911 call before completely absolving the neighbor, if the woman's report is to be believed he sounds like a dick that wouldn't have been a voice of moderation when making the call.

Sort of. People making frequent hyperbolic reports about black people is a problem that puts a strain on police resources even when the police are perfect actors. Not sure how to solve that though, since you obviously don't want to encourage people not to call police.

Not knowing who your neighbors are and calling the cops because you saw a person of color trying to get into their apartment is not a good deed you sack of crap.

Did you listen to the 911 call?

What part of the call or the article makes you think he is racist?

Knowing who you live next to isn't too much to ask. I never interact with the other folks in my building, but if somebody's been there for 7 months I know enough to not call the damn cops.

Did you listen to the 911 call?

The guy saw the locksmith and didn't realize what (profession) he was. The guy just saw someone with what he thought were burglary tools forcing the lock without a key.

Who do you think did a good deed that got punished here and what was the punishment? Being asked "hey did you call the police because I was black? Didn't really like the SWAT team bearing down on me"

Calling the police seems fine, but punishment seems like a weird way to categorize it

I just did- and that doesn't counteract a thing I said.

If you're the calling the cops type, be the know your neighbors type. I don't think what he did is horrible, but I'm not going to call it a good deed either (especially when the guy taking that position is Howard's "No guys stop and frisk is a good thing" hatefull ass.)

Racism aside, "I'm an attorney, so you can gfy" isn't a very kind thing to say to her. An apology for putting her through the ordeal would have been more appropriate imo. He called the cops trying to do a solid for whoever lived there. One would think he'd try to be more friendly to the neighbour he was trying to help out when face to face with her.

We don't know what she exactly said to him or her tone.

She was justifiably upset by the police officers' actions. Maybe she came across accusatory and tried to blame him for the SMPD's overreaction.

And why an apology? He thought he saw someone breaking into her apartment and called the cops. How did he "put her through the ordeal"?