New report hits DOJ over lack of police shooting data

[GMDino]

https://www.axios.com/doj-report-police-shooting-data-2abe42e2-507e-4747-bd13-ef288e44daf4.html

Quote:A new government accountability report says the Department of Justice failed to consistently publish an annual summary of police excessive force data from 2016 to 2020, as required by federal law.


Why it matters: The data is crucial for the DOJ to monitor excessive force cases, and used to investigate law enforcement agencies with patterns of abuse. The DOJ can pivot off it to pursue court action to force reforms.
Driving the news: The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Tuesday released a report examining the DOJ's efforts to collect relevant data and investigate allegations of excessive force.

• The report found that from 2016 to 2020, the department didn't publish an annual summary of data about excessive force for any of those fiscal years because officials didn't assign roles and responsibilities for doing so.
• The FBI initiated a new data collection effort in 2016 but the agency since has seen insufficient participation by the estimated 18,000 state and municipal law enforcement agencies around the country.
• The report said the FBI did little to address it.
  

The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment after Axios supplied a copy of the report.


The intrigue: The report comes after the Biden administration announced in April it would reverse a Trump-era policy limiting the use of consent decrees to force changes at police departments and government agencies accused of misconduct.

• In one of his final moves as attorney general in 2018, Jeff Sessions issued a memo restricting the ability of local U.S. attorneys to enter into consent-decree settlements.
• That prevented the DOJ's civil rights division from launching probes into police departments following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and as demonstrators took to the streets in the summer of 2020.
  

What's next: The GAO made 11 recommendations to the Justice Department to improve its data collection on excessive force cases.

• The report recommended the FBI director look into potential alternative data collection strategies for the National Use of Force Data Collection.
• The report also recommended the attorney general assign responsibility for collecting and annually publishing data on the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers.
  

Report is here:

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104456

[BigPapaKain]

Shocker.

[Belsnickel]

Things like this are why I don't understand the folks with the Gdsden flags next to their Thin Blue Lines. Moves like this are antithetical to the idea promoted by the Gadsden image.

[Rotobeast]

(01-03-2022, 03:57 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Things like this are why I don't understand the folks with the Gdsden flags next to their Thin Blue Lines. Moves like this are antithetical to the idea promoted by the Gadsden image.

*fist-bump*

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(01-03-2022, 03:57 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Things like this are why I don't understand the folks with the Gdsden flags next to their Thin Blue Lines. Moves like this are antithetical to the idea promoted by the Gadsden image.

(01-03-2022, 04:06 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: *fist-bump*

Don't expect consistency from most people, it requires too much critical thinking.  I don't think the concept of law enforcement and the idea behind the Gadsden flag are inherently antithetical, but it certainly can be executed as such.

[Belsnickel]

(01-03-2022, 09:34 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Don't expect consistency from most people, it requires too much critical thinking.  I don't think the concept of law enforcement and the idea behind the Gadsden flag are inherently antithetical, but it certainly can be executed as such.

Honestly, there is a difference between the idea of law enforcement and the "Thin Blue Line" thing. The whole TBL movement is a toxic one that does some serious harm. It validates the idea that the LEO community will back each other up even in the instance when the cop is in the wrong. It does so much harm to the trust in the community and just further politicizes the idea of policing. The TBL stuff perpetuates the idea that police are fascist tools of the ruling class that exists on the left.

We are a democratic society. The government is of, by, and for the people. Police are government employees of the executive branch of our government at various levels, and as such they are responsible, ultimately, to the public. Because of this, actions like the ones in the OP truly fly in the face of these ideals. Because of the politicization of policing this has become a difficult balance to find, but we need to find a way to balance accountability with the ability for police to do their job. The overall system right now is ****** and we need to fix it.

[Rotobeast]

(01-03-2022, 09:34 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Don't expect consistency from most people, it requires too much critical thinking.  I don't think the concept of law enforcement and the idea behind the Gadsden flag are inherently antithetical, but it certainly can be executed as such.

I feel as if they are. One defiantly proclaims self rule and the other accepts being ruled. That being said, I'm not an Anarchist (I'm a Minarchist) and understand that we do need law enforcement to keep folks inbounds that might go full Mad Max. I would also state that most of the LEO's that I know fly Gadsden flags and are more than reasonable with their public interactions. 
Maybe I should view a person flying both flags as someone who is willing to have just A LITTLE boot on their neck ?
Yeah, I know..... don't do anything wrong and you'll never see a boot, but we're just spit-balling irony and perceived philosophy here.