FBI will overhaul system used to track police shootings
Kimberly Kindy

Washington: The FBI's system for tracking fatal police shootings is a "travesty", and the agency will replace it by 2017, dramatically expanding the information it gathers on violent police encounters in the US, a senior FBI official has said.

The new effort will go beyond tracking fatal shootings and, for the first time, track any incident in which an officer causes serious injury or death to civilians, including through the use of stun guns, pepper spray, and even fists and feet.

"We are responding to a real human outcry," said Stephen Morris, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which oversees the data collection. "People want to know what police are doing, and they want to know why they are using force. It always fell to the bottom before. It is now the highest priority."

Full story: http://www.theage.com.au/world/fbi-will-overhaul-system-used-to-track-police-shootings-20151209-glja0s.html


-- The Age 2015-12-09

It's about time.

The question remains...what are your going to do with the information?

The culture of police "cover-up" to protect their own has to end...these people have for too long considered themselves above the law and many have used that idea to inflict unnecessary harm on unarmed citizens...

Kudos to the FBI...finally taking the first step in policing the police...

Send criminal policemen to jail...there they will receive a just payback...