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The Center for American Progress reports
Congress [just] passed a bill that could result in complete, national data on police shootings and other deaths in law enforcement custody.
Right now, we have nothing close to that. Police departments are not required to report information about police to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Some do, others don't, others submit it some years and not others or submit potentially incomplete numbers, making it near-impossible to know how many people police kill every year. Based on the figures that are reported to the federal government, ProPublica recently concluded that young black men are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than whites.
Under the bill awaiting Obama's signature, states receiving federal funds would be required to report every quarter on deaths in law enforcement custody. This includes not [only] those who are killed by police during a stop, arrest, or other interaction. It also includes those who die in jail or prison. [Additionally,] it requires details about these shootings including gender, race, as well as at least some circumstances surrounding the death.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ikanreed on Tuesday December 16 2014, @09:00PM
Or it's just got a set date of actual enaction written into the legislation and signing it right away won't be any different than signing it tomorrow.
Most legislation does. Especially when it creates regulatory requirements for a diverse set of organizations.
In fact, I'm willing to bet even odds it won't even start official tracking until 2016. In fact, forget the betting, here's the relevant text
That means the fiscal year AFTER 120 days after it's signed, or 2016.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday December 16 2014, @10:06PM
FY2016 starts on Oct 1st 2015, which is not excessively long after the arbitrary 120-day waiting period.