Franklin Zimring interviewed on KQED, January 13, 2015
The records that we keep at the federal level of national patterns in police use of deadly force are not audited; they’re essentially voluntary. In terms of the police, they turn in this data when they want to—and it’s very uncarefully classified. As far as the Federal Bureau of Investigation is concerned, every killing by a police officer in uniform in the United States is presumably the justifiable killing of a felon.