What are some of the issues and possible solutions involved in the national debate concerning police shootings?
What will be an ideal response?
One of the issues is that no one knows the actual number of police shootings or exactly how many of them were deemed unjusti?ed. The FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the statistical arm of the Justice Department, both collect data on the number of people killed by the police and other law enforcement agencies, but no one is required to submit this information, and many police departments choose not to. Moreover, federal data do not distinguish between justi?ed and unjusti?ed homicides, in which the victim was not a threat. The FBI says it tracks “justi?able homicides” and then de?nes these as “the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty.” In some cases, however, such killings have been ruled unjusti?ed. The FBI data also do not provide details on where or under what circumstances deadly force was used.
Better data that track officer-involved shootings, police agency openness regarding officer involved shootings, and more training on “shoot/don’t shoot” scenarios are some possible solutions offered for addressing issues with officer-involved shootings.
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What will be an ideal response?
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