You dont know what you dont know. There is currently no aggregated information on police conduct, particularly how it disparately affects people of colour. This means that the FBI collects statistics on hate crimes perpetrated by civilians, but those committed by the state remain unaccounted for. Burbank has helped launch a new and ambitious database that aims to standardise data collection of police departments. The database is designed by the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) at the University of California Los Angeles, and has received $1m from the National Science Of the 12,000 police departments across the nation So far, only 60 have expressed interest in participating in the database, on the condition they remain anonymous. aljazeera/indepth/opinion/2014/06/us-police-racism-201462693447755821.html
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