AG Bob Ferguson: Require police report use of deadly force, and disclosure to public

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, in a report to the Legislature, says law enforcement statewide should be required to disclose all uses of deadly force, and that reports should be made part of a website accessible to all citizens.

"There is currently no public, centralized location for information on deadly force by law enforcement in Washington," Ferguson said in a statement. "The public expects and deserves access to this information. These common-sense, broadly supported policies are long overdue."

Washington voters in 2018 passed Initiative 940, which reformed conditions for charging police for excessive use of force and expanded training requirements.

But there remains no single location where the public and Legislature can obtain information about cases in which deadly force has been used by police. Some individual law enforcement agencies do make deadly force incident information available, but Ferguson argues that transparency is not consistent across the state. Nor is the information compiled in one place.

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[abqtommy]

1. That might help. But I think talking and acting on defunding will be of more benefit to us

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