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To: GST who wrote (83785)	1/15/2013 2:33:08 PM
From: ggersh	Respond to of 119360

It's insanity..... huffingtonpost.com Colbert Talks Guns As Civil Rights Victims (VIDEO)

To: GST who wrote (83785)	1/15/2013 4:34:28 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 119360

<data is collected on the public, not the police> false -- completely false. actually, you are wrong. forcechange.com Demand that the FBI Collect Data on Police ShootingsBY MATTHEW CLARY Target: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Chairman of Senate Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Goal: Require national data collection on police shootings How many police shootings were there in the U.S. last year? No one really knows because that data isn’t collected. Robberies, rapes, drug arrests; this is all readily available to the public. But when a police officer shoots a member of the public, it isn’t deemed important enough to take note. The FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics are the foremost authorities in the collection of crime data in the United States. This collection of data at the national level is paramount in the attempt to reduce crime across the country. Obviously reducing the number of police shootings, and allowing the public to know how many there are exactly, is not a priority of the Justice Department or the Federal Government in general. It seems that, in this day and age, this is most certainly not a task that is beyond the capability of these organizations, nor is it an oversight. Instead, it is an attempt to keep information from the public that may upset them. Congress would be responsible for mandating that national data on police shootings be collected. The police officers of the United States of America should be held under the same analytical microscope that the citizens they are sworn to protect are held under. National statistics on police shootings need to be collected and made available to the public by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.