As protests continue highlighting the widespread scourge of police brutality and anti-black racism in the U.S., the Department of Justice quietly released a survey on national use-of-force statistics that reveal a twofold dilemma: law enforcement agencies are ineffective at collecting such data—and the lack of such information, in turn, may hamper
Police Use-of-Force Stats Reveal Roadblocks to Reform
With no national mechanism to collect use of force data, federal efforts at reform may be hampered.