MO HCR22

Urges Congress to establish a national database on police shootings and require all U.S. police departments to submit shooting data.

Notes the absence of comprehensive national statistics on police use of deadly force despite the FBI collecting extensive crime data and a 1994 federal law requiring the Attorney General to collect and publish such data.

Points to a 2012 St. Louis Post-Dispatch report finding St. Louis Metropolitan Police fired weapons more frequently per 1,000 crimes than officers in 16 other major cities, citing the lack of a national database as preventing conclusive measurements.

References a University of Missouri-St. Louis study on police shootings that found the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department needed improvement in public accountability regarding its investigation of police-involved shootings.

Calls for balanced data collection that tracks both police officers killed and assaulted in the line of duty and police use of force against citizens to accurately measure police-community relationships.