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| State Attorney General Bob Ferguson |
The report also recommends that the state create a centralized, publicly accessible website with information about these incidents.
Currently, there is no single location where the public and lawmakers can obtain information about the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers in Washington state.
Deadly force refers to firearms discharges and incidents resulting in death or serious physical injury.
Some individual law enforcement agencies have chosen to make deadly force incident information routinely available, but transparency is not consistent across the state and the information is not compiled in one place.
In 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation created a national use-of-force reporting program, but the program is voluntary and only 10 percent of Washington law enforcement agencies currently participate. In addition, the information reported to that program is not publicly available.
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