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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2018 FBI database to track deadly encounters with police National response to shootings By LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press The federal government is launching a national data- base that will track when law enforcement officers use deadly force, providing more transparency about police shootings that have inflamed tensions in cities around the country. For years, the public has debated whether law enforce- ment officers have become too trigger-happy — especially in dealing with African-Ameri- cans and other minorities — but basic information about police shootings and use of force has been elusive. It’s mainly been left to news organizations to fill the void by compiling their own databases to understand the problem, an effort that took on greater urgency in the wake of deadly police shootings of unarmed black men that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. The FBI national database, announced recently and being launched in January, will cat- alog incidents in which a death or serious bodily injury occurs, or when officers dis- charge a firearm at or in the direction of someone. It also will track gender, age, eth- nicity and other demographic information. There will be limitations, however, because police Clatsop County District Attorney’s Office A Seaside police officer was justified in a fatal shooting in July, the district attorney’s office ruled. departments are not required to report their information to the national database. On the North Coast, there have been two fatal police shootings over the past few years, both involving the same Seaside police officer. The dis- trict attorney’s office ruled the shootings were justified. “It strikes me as sort of crazy that in a modern, First World country that prioritizes democratic freedoms the way that the United States does, we don’t have the basic informa- tion that we need to have to discuss a fairly important issue of officers taking civilians’ lives,” said Seth Stoughton, an associate law professor at the University of South Carolina St. Anthony Police Department A Minnesota police officer is shown after shooting into a vehicle at Philando Castile during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minn., in 2016. who has researched police use of force for years. There are an estimated 60 SCHEDULE THE DAILY ASTORIAN M ONDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 PM million encounters between officers and civilians every year. About 1,000 people are killed in altercations with police each year. Police estimate that less than 5 percent of arrests involve use of force. Law enforcement officials hope the database will help dispel the notion that fatal encounters and inappropriate use of force are rampant. “The whole point of having a national database is so every- one can speak from a factual basis about what’s really hap- pening. There’s so much news today about police use of force and yet there has never been a factual, established database against which to compare,” said Rick Myers, executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. “If you lis- ten to the national narrative of the police use of force, you’d think it was much higher than that.” It will not be mandatory for agencies to report the informa- tion. A related FBI database that collects data on officers killed and assaulted shows that about 11,000 police agencies — out of 18,000 nationwide — provide information. Stoughton anticipates a similar number of agencies will provide information to the new database. The agencies most likely to provide the data, he said, will be larger and midsized agencies, many of them that already collect and dissemi- nate information to the public on these encounters. “It at least starts us down that road and it’s a road that we as a society that we’ve been reluctant to walk down before,” Stoughton said. John Bostain, a former police officer in Virginia who now travels the country train- ing law enforcement, said he hopes most agencies will participate. He’s concerned that some agencies may not be willing to participate or may not have the resources to provide the data to the FBI. The database will only be useful and reliable if agencies make a point of par- ticipating, he said. The national debate makes it especially imperative to par- ticipate, he said. “Law enforcement was slow on the uptake. I don’t think law enforcement realized we could’ve gotten out front of this narrative,” Bostain said. 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