Explain how data on fatal police shootings are gathered and recorded.
What will be an ideal response?
Most recent estimates suggest that on-duty law enforcement officers fatally shoot about 1,000 civilians annually. The FBI and CDC both gather data on this topic, but acknowledge that their accounting is incomplete. Given public interest in police shootings, other entities have been compiling information. For example, the Washington Post began tracking police shootings that occurred in the line of duty in January 2015. This effort has documented more than twice the number of police shootings than the FBI and CDC find. In total, since January 2015, the Washington Post has documented 3,198 fatal shootings of people by on-duty law enforcement officers.
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