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Many police agencies collect data, but few chiefs actually use the data to inform policing strategies in their communities, says Alejandro Del Carmen, a criminologist who is a veteran police trainer. In a discussion with TCR’s Isidoro Rodriguez about his new book, Del Carmen says the failure to take data seriously has created a climate where excessive force and endemic racism continue to prevail in American policing.

An Amnesty International report says half of a sample of Belgian police officers surveyed identified the use of racial profiling by local police forces as a problem. While government officials pushed back against the report, the human rights organization said its results constitute a “cause for concern.”

Under a new law, starting with the Los Angeles Police Department and other large law enforcement agencies in July 2018, officers will collect information detailing race, gender and other demographic details every time police pull someone over in their cars or otherwise detain them.