By Amanda Lee Myers
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says the department will collect and report more comprehensive data about cases in which officers use force.
Beck announced the move Tuesday at a meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission, a civilian oversight panel.
Beck says the new data will include demographics of people on whom officers use force, arrest demographics, and the types of calls involving force.
Beck says it’s “painfully obvious” why the department wants to track the data, pointing to the national conversation surrounding the use of force by law enforcement.
Beck says he expects that conversation to be part of the American fabric “for quite some time” and that he thinks the new data will help the public make a better assessment of how the department handles such cases.
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