fujaromethey don't report to the FBI though. They're usually considered civil servants of the state or city, not the country.
You are wrong they legally have to submit how many people police officers shoot injure and kill. Just like they do for every statistic of the department but for some reason that's the only statistic that can't be found.
"The lists below are incomplete, as the annual average number of justifiable homicides alone is estimated to be near 400.[1] Although Congress instructed the Attorney General in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, this was never carried out. and the FBI does not collect this data either.
But how many people in the United States were shot, or killed, by law enforcement officers during that year? No one knows.
Officials with the Justice Department keep no comprehensive database or record of police shootings, instead allowing the nation’s more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies to self-report officer-involved shootings as part of the FBI’s annual data on “justifiable homicides” by law enforcement.
That number – which only includes self-reported information from about 750 law enforcement agencies – hovers around 400 “justifiable homicides” by police officers each year. The DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics also tracks “arrest-related deaths.” But the department stopped releasing those numbers after 2009, because, like the FBI data, they were widely regarded as unreliable.
So what did we learn? Police officers self-report shootings so the Attorney General can release the statistics annually, because they legally have to. And because we know police officers are honest and going to admit they killed someone........ the numbers are not accurate so the FBI's annual report is disregarded because it's un reliable. police are killing people and then lying and getting away with it. Why are you arguing with me?
