WADEPPS: Enhancing Police Accountability

Washington has almost 11 thousand police officers across a hundred and seventy agencies… and no standardized tracking of police use of force.

That is, until this week.

In a minute we’ll learn what The Washington State Data Exchange for Public Safety could mean for people, police, and policy.

Correction: The origianl version of this episode mistakenly referred to Nancy Wilson as Nancy Williams.

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