The National Use-of-Force Data Collection will track use-of-force incidents by police that result in death or serious bodily injury, and also incidents in which an officer fired a gun at a person, the FBI announced Wednesday.
Local, state, tribal, and federal jurisdictions can begin submitting data to the FBI via a web application on Jan. 1, 2019.
Law enforcement agencies across the country have come under fire for high-profile incidents of deaths and injuries by police officers.
No statistics have been available to track the incidents on a national scale, though some agencies collect their own data at the state and local level.
Members of a use-of-force data collection task force convened by the FBI also say they hope the data will increase transparency and in turn strengthen trust between the community and law enforcement.
The data collection program will be administered under the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program, the same arm that collects and releases national hate crime data.
The FBI also says they will offer data collection training for departments who participate. »
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