RantCrush Top 5: October 14, 2016

All across social media, people are rejoicing in the Justice Department’s new plan to track fatal and non-fatal police interactions involving officers.

The New York Times states: “The project, the most ambitious the federal government has undertaken in tracking the use of force by police officers, is meant to fill what officials say is a huge and frustrating void in publicly available data on the shootings that have roiled the country.”

The FBI said in a statement that it was embarrassing that the news media, specifically The Guardian and The Washington Post, had better data on the issue than the government did.

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Many people are also excited:

This feels pretty huge. Should’ve been done long ago. https://t.co/yReYQlK0NX

— Morgan Peter Brown (@MorganPeteBrown) October 14, 2016

Let us recall that similar tracking was instrumental in the development of federal hate-crime laws. https://t.co/BnsEtZndbG

— THE African-American (@meredithclark) October 13, 2016

Others are not so impressed:

Fatal and non-fatal encounters? So everything? That’s a lot of data that can be cooked into any sort of stew you want to make. #Overreach https://t.co/Cw303uZ4oE

— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) October 13, 2016

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