Federal investigators will soon begin actively tracking police use-of-force incidents on a national level, the FBI announced<\/a> in a press release Tuesday. Following 2017\u2019s pilot version of the program, the agency now says it will begin taking reports from forces on the Local, State, tribal and federal level starting January of next year.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n The data collected will be made publicly available twice a year, granting the public aggregate statistics on police violence from a national perspective for the first time. At present, American police departments are left to sort out their own use of force, and the government has little idea of the scale of the problem.<\/p>\n The inquiry will track numerous details regarding incidents where police kill, injure or fire at a suspect, including the race, gender and age of all involved. The data, however, is not intended to prove whether a specific officer\u2019s actions were or were not legal, but rather focus on creating a generalized picture.<\/p>\n It\u00a0will be curated by a newly established task force who say they hope to improve the tense relationship between communities and police, and highlight common trends among incidents that resulted in violence.<\/p>\n The FBI says that the initiative was launched in light of \u201ca number of high-profile cases involving law enforcement use of force<\/em>\u201d over the past few years which have made the issue a matter of national concern, \u2013 which is to put it lightly.<\/p>\n Over 1,000 people are killed every year by police in America according to data compiled<\/a>\u00a0by the Guardian, making American law enforcement the most lethal in the world with no serious competitors. Instances of non-lethal force, while more difficult to track, are also at critical levels, and things don\u2019t seem to be getting any better despite growing public awareness.<\/p>\n
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