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Hillary Clinton's plan for criminal justice reform states that she will work on improving relations between police and communities by "collecting and reporting national data on policing" including on shootings by officers and deaths in custody.
The paper also recommends that researchers analyze local data on policing activity, including "data on pedestrian and traffic stops, building checks, and other self-initiated police activity", to see if there is any link between drops in police activity and an increase in homicide.
It is difficult to imagine a plausible scenario in which this bias could operate in favour of the study hypothesis; however, in the absence of independent data on policing levels it is impossible to do more than speculate.
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Data on police abuse are difficult to obtain.
The FBI chief followed Lynch's remarks on Wednesday, stating that the lack of federal data on police killings was "embarrassing and ridiculous".
In 1994, the US Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which authorized the attorney general to collect and publish nationwide data on police use of force.
From next May justice outcomes will be placed alongside crime data on police.uk so people can see what happens next after crimes are committed in their areas.
Other major European countries do not collect data on police stops broken down according to the targets' ethnic or religious background.
The Counted is a Guardian US project that collects data on police shootings in the US and its numbers are damning.
Despite federal law authorizing the US attorney general to collect nationwide data on police use of force, there remains no federal database on how often police kill civilians, let alone abuse their authority.
The move follows calls from campaigners and lawmakers for better official data on police killings, after a nationwide debate about racism and policing was sparked by protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
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