The most unaccountable organizational type in America are its governments - the case of police killings stats

Radley Balko reminds us that law enforcement at all levels has declined to provide data on how many people it kills, how many of them were innocent and so on.  In direct contravention of Federal law. Once again, it seems like being part of the government means you don't have to follow the law if it's inconvenient.

Former Reasoner and author of "Rise of the Warrior Cop," Radley Balko, examined why that is in 2012:

Both private police groups and the FBI keep close statistics on the number of cops killed and assaulted while on the job. What you won't see is a slate of stories about the number of citizens killed by police in 2012. Those data just don't exist at a national level. Here's the New York Times, back in 2001:

"Despite widespread public interest and a provision in the 1994 Crime Control Act requiring the attorney general to collect the data and publish an annual report on them, statistics on police shootings and use of nondeadly force continue to be piecemeal products of spotty collection, and are dependent on the cooperation of local police departments. No comprehensive accounting for all the nation's 17,000 police departments exists."

The problem is that while the 1994 law requires federal government to compile data on policing shootings, there's no requirement that police departments actually provide them. And so most don't

OK, I have a plan:  from now on I and everyone else should report that unjustified police killings of civilians has 'tripled' in the past ten years and is rising at a fifteen percent annual rate.  And that police killing rates are five times those in Canada.  They'll be forced to come up with numbers to shut us up. More police brutality here.