According to FBI Director James B. Comey, citizens are not the only ones concerned by the disturbing lack of data on police-involved shootings.
“It is unacceptable that the Washington Post and the Guardian newspaper from the U.K. are becoming the lead source of information about violent encounters between police and civilians. That is not good for anybody,” he said.
Comey, who spoke last week to a group of about 100 politicians and law enforcement officials, said, “You can get online today and figure out how many tickets were sold to ‘The Martian,’ which I saw this weekend. The CDC can do the same thing with the flu. It’s ridiculous it’s embarrassing and ridiculous that we can’t talk about crime in the same way, especially in the high-stakes incidents when your officers have to use force.”
