U.S : the FBI must require crime data from law enforcement agencies.

 

 

 

Friend, law enforcement agencies are refusing to report crucial crime data - and the FBI is letting them get away with it.      Sign the petition to the FBI: Require crime data from law enforcement agencies.        SIGN THE PETITION                         Just a year after the inhumane police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the FBI announced they would be revising their data reporting program to better track and analyze crime data from law enforcement agencies. The newer and more comprehensive system cost the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars to help transition local police departments.    Except a large percentage of those police departments failed to report crime data last year, 40% to be exact. This failure to report leaves communities and politicians unable to draw conclusions on crime trends and racial bias among law enforcement agencies. But the FBI continues to maintain that reporting is optional for these departments.    Our communities and the federal government need to make informed decisions on public safety. We need accountability and policies that actually protect people. But to do that, we need to understand crime trends, and we can’t do that with this gaping hole in our national crime data. This is something that we absolutely must require, full stop.        Sign the petition to the FBI: Require crime data from law enforcement agencies.            SIGN THE PETITION           Keep fighting,            Jayleen Alvarado, Daily Kos.                                                                                                               Daily Kos Liberation League Relies on Activists Like You. Half our revenue comes from readers like you, meaning we literally couldn't do this work without you. Can you chip in $5 right now to help Daily Kos Liberation League keep fighting ? Chip in $5  Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Contributions to Daily Kos are not tax deductible.