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Require officer-involved shootings statistics be made public.

Created by R.M. on August 11, 2014

- The FBI keeps up-to-date information on police officers who are killed in the line of duty. In the country where all men are created equal, information regarding civilians killed by police officers should also be a priority. The Cato Institute reports that "you're eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist".

- Require statistics be separated by department so that extra training on use of force can be allocated to departments that are above average.

- A low crime rate combined with a high rate of civilians killed by officers may suggest that a paradigm shift needs to occur in a given department.

- The good people have a right to know how their police departments measure up to the rest of the country.

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