The attorney general says local police are encouraged to preserve records on such killings,but improving police-community relations is more importantAttorney general Loretta Lynch says the federal government should not require police to report fatal shootings of civilians, sharply diverging from her predecessor Eric Holder’s stance on police killings.
In a conversation with NBC journalist Chuck Todd on a range of criminal justice issues, or Lynch said on Thursday that she does not support a federal mandate to report people killed by police.
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Source: theguardian.com