By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A new federal government study has found that the FBI has reported far fewer killings by police than actually happened.
The study found there were about 1,200 killings by police in in 2015, compared to the FBI’s official count of 442.
The discovery casts serious questions about the data collected by the FBI, which compiles what are supposed to be the official counts.
The study suggests tracking arrest-related deaths by using media reports and follow-ups with law enforcement and coroners’ offices.
“The revised … program methodology is designed to increase the reliability, validity, and comprehensiveness of the data collection,” the study reports.
The ACLU and other independent groups have long criticized the current method of tracking, which comes from police self-reporting the killings.
