Here is a new idea for public safety from law enforcement, by a veteran of law enforcement. It is a petition on Change,org:
https://www.change.org/...
"The Department of Justice must create a comprehensive national database of police shooting killings by police to take a step toward preventing more senseless killings. Please sign our petition."
Helpful and needed it is, but I can think of an improvement on that idea.
We need a nation-wide database not only of fatal and non-fatal shootings by police, but of excessive force by police, deadly and excessive force against unarmed civilians, deaths in police custody, police invasions of civilian homes and schools, police force against minors (children, infants, pregnant women), police force against the elderly, police force against the disabled (handicapped, invalid, mentally challenged), police force against military veterans, police force against other police persons, and police force motivated by hate. In other words, all forms of police brutality, with emphasis on fatalities and severe injuries.
A database like this has to be open to the public, in accordance to the Freedeom of Information Act. This database is a reasonable request for attorney general Eric Holder, but we cannot trust it completely to the Department of Justice. It had best be controlled and maintained independently and outside of law enforcement, outside of government and outside of news media and private corporations. all of the above have means and motives to corrupt the database.
The petition link above as a good place to start, but don't expect the DOJ to do it all by itself any time soon. The idea needs help to get going, and the more help the better.