“If we want to tell the true national picture,” Casstevens said, “we need the departments to report their zeros. This is what’s frustrating to me, the zero monthly reports are just as important,” to reach accurate conclusions about how often police fire their weapons or kill. He said that about 70 percent of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the country have 25 or fewer officers and are likely to have zero incidents in many months, but aren’t reporting them.

Source: Washington Post June 09, 2021 12:00 UTC