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Congress passes a bill to track police shootings

A recently reauthorized bill will require police departments from across the country to report shootings and killings at the hands of law enforcement.

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A recently re-authorized bill could add some much-needed transparency in police departments around the country.

Last week amidst nationwide protests a die-ins, Congress passed a bill to require law enforcement agencies to report every police-involved shooting and death and include age, gender, race and the circumstances surrounding the killing. In 2000, similar legislation passed, but it was temporary, with an expiration date in 2006.

For years, law enforcement were not required to submit to federal agencies information on police killings, making it difficult to keep track. When shootings or killings were self-reported, the Federal Bureau of Investigations filed them as “justifiable homicides” and “arrest-related deaths,” making analysis even more complicated and numbers unreliable. Now, the Justice Department will be able to withhold funding if local law enforcement around the country fails to release data that includes specific information.

In October, a ProPublica analysis of the existing data found that young, Black men were 21 times more likely to be fatally shot by police than young, white men. The data that did exist revealed that Black teens between 15 and 19 years old were killed at a rate of 31 per million while white teens of the same age were killed at a rate of less than two per million.

 
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