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Shedding light on the use of SWAT teams

Blako, Radley
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/02/17/shedding-light-on-the-use-of-swat-teams/

Publisher:  Washington Post
Date Written:  17/02/2014
Year Published:  2014  
Resource Type:  Article

A new bill in Utah that would require the state's police agencies to report statistics about how and how often they use their SWAT and tactical teams has just unanimously passed a committee in the state's senate. The bill is part of a larger, fascinating police reform movement currently under way in Utah.

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A new bill in Utah that would require the state's police agencies to report statistics about how and how often they use their SWAT and tactical teams has just unanimously passed a committee in the state’s senate. The bill is part of a larger, fascinating police reform movement currently under way in Utah.

If it passes, Utah would become the second state in the country--after Maryland--to require police agencies to track that information. Collecting data about how SWAT teams are used, how often they're used, and what results from their deployment is a critical step toward determining whether or not they're being used properly. The biggest barrier to performing that sort of analysis has always been that the data just don’t exist.

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