There's a factor we do not know for certain if capturing of private citizens by police are up or down, why we don't understand the number of such shootings are really warranted, or how much of a percent of the total cops killings are in fact heard about on the night news. That reason: no one is tracking it. Which is a severe trouble. As Radley Balko with the Huffington Post checks out, many authorities agencies might track policeman shootings on a micro-level, however no person is sending these to the Department of Justice or any other larger body to compile and assess. This isn't a new discovery. The New York city Times brought it to the forefront in a 2001 record, specifying:. So, the companies gather the data per the 1994 Crime Control Act, however then that data suffers and also absolutely nothing is done with it. (Similarly, no details is available on how police firms are making use of every one of the military tools they are purchasing or obtaining free of cha
