Sounds like it needs changing. Otherwise this database is entirely worthless, of not misleading and harmful.

Voluntary reporting makes it worthless. If there isn’t mandatory reporting with punishments, then they’ll just lie like they do now.

Yeah, pretty disgusting it’s not mandatory.  I hope the FBI will accept crowd-sourced data, because they aren’t going to get it from the worst police departments.

NJ.com just released a searchable database of ALL uses of force by police so you can see each town and which officers (including full name) are using force more often than others. It was fascinating to see where and how force is used by town/city and how better tracking can help remove/retrain officers (not that I am…

If the fed is relying on departments to report their own user of force statistics they can make this database say anything they want. 

I imagine you will be able to search the database by city so you should be able to find out if your local pd is participating. It might make protests more efficient knowing exactly who is and who isn't on your side.

This story is a page straight out of the playbook for government calming outrage about police killings and then doing nothing to follow through. Our country has seen public outrage against police violence against people of color for a hundred years—longer even. The Kerner Commission called for collection of this data…

Without mandatory participation what good exactly will this database be? The police apologists will use the incompleteness of the data to do exactly nothing about the problem.

Because the only place the Black Panther Party is considered a hate group is in the minds of weak white people who either have no clue about or refuse to acknowledge the origins of the party, why they got started and the incredible work they did in the black community.

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I could never understand the DA saying originally that manslaughter was what she was going for, except that she was trying to help out her ‘partners’ in crime and go easy on this so-called cop.

This is a good step in her hopefully getting significant jail time. One thing that still bothers me is why her drug and alcohol tests are still not reported, but they wasted no time mentioning that he had weed in his apartment.

That’s fair. I agree that it doesn’t benefit him/FB directly. But, if you’ll allow me to go a step further: 1. FB donates to a republican congresswoman (or a dem for that matter) as it lobbies against some tech regulation bill; 2. Congresswoman agrees to vote against the bill if FB changes its video-retention policy; 3…

Considering that the article addresses FB’s approach to Color of Change, a group that would utilize videos of Ms Gaines and others to bring awareness and fight injustice, is it possible that FB would work with law enforcement to make sure there wouldn’t be another recorded Philando Castille-type FB live video for COC…

So much so that they were indirectly responsible for ending the legality of open carry in California, an effort broadly supported by . . . wait for it . . . the NRA.

The BPP’s core principle was the armed defense of blacks, primarily against police violence. 

Spray painting Nazi symbols on a mural of black women is POSSIBLY a hate crime?

LAPD Officer Jeff Lee told KTLA that the vandalism is being investigated as a possible hate crime.

Nobody ever finishes that phrase but I feel like we need to remember that it goes