Do things comprehensively. You bug people. Then in year 2020 when youve got all the information you can tell people what happened in 2015. The minute we decided that wasnt going to cut it all of these challenges that i just presented to you were what we were wrestling with on a daily basis. And it was ugly and messy, and we had to constantly realize that we were needing to evaluate and reevaluate things. When Police Officers would say this person was driving a car and they were trying to kill the officer with it, were they armed with a car . Were they not armed with it . These were complicated things you need to wrestle with and understand and tackle so you can have a data set that is really reliable, something where every single killing youre tracking things in exactly the same way in a way which police can challenge you and it can hold up. The aclu can challenge you and it can hold up. These were the things that by the end of the year we were exhaustive, but we felt like we had really done our job. And it produced some really great things. We talked about the fbi and the bureau of justice statistics saying this is embarrassing. You and the guardian are doing a better job than us, so they came around and did it too. It was fantastic last month when Police Chiefs met at a National Conference and pointed to the posts work and said this is valuable. We need to know this information. We need to take a deep look at why things are going sidesidewa. We need to take a deep look at our training. Which of these are preventable . Thankfully they saw this is not only dangerous, a lack of proper training, a lack of handling some of these situations properly. Its not just dangerous for civilians. Its dangerous for police. When you chase a guy down a dark alley by yourself and you have no idea what they even did, they just ran away from you, youre endangering yourself. Maybe you think you see a gun and you dont, which was an actual case. Someone was shot. He was unarmed. The officer just got face to face with the person by himself in a dark alley. It happens a lot. Anyway, quickly some of our findings that prompted change we found that a quarter of the people who were shot and killed were mentally ill, and we found that most of the departments that shot and killed somebody who was mentally ill were not using stateoftheart training that could help them deescalate those situations and bring people in safely. Sometimes officers were shooting into moving cars, turning them into multiton metal missiles unarmed shooting into traffic. We found one in ten people were unarmed. Of course, we wanted to find out and get a realistic idea of what it looked like. Michael brown was unarmed. Every media account that really got a lot of attention is people were unarmed. How often were people really unarmed . Most of the time they were armed, but we wanted to take a deep look at what the unarmed population looked like. Unarmed black men were seven times more likely to be shot than unarmed white men. But we wanted toake sure we were very balanced in that we looked at honestly the dangers that officers face. We found a majority of the time the officers at the time they pulled the trigger were under attack. Its a dangerous job. We wanted to make sure we were really fair and got the facts in front of people. I think thats part of why the fbi has come around and Police Chiefs have come around. They understand theyre going to have a better Public Discourse and better training if they realistically can explain to people the dangers and separate out the shootings that are justified from the ones that are unjustified and change things