At a gathering of police chiefs in San Diego, FBI director James Comey pointed out the obvious: that a few viral videos of police shooting unarmed black men does not constitute an "epidemic" of police killings. CNN: He touched on a theme he has pursued for more than a year: trying to get police to embrace the need to report statistics on officer-involved shootings. Better numbers, Comey argues, would help the nation understand whether there is a real epidemic of police killings of black men or if the advent of viral videos shared in social media are giving the impression that there are more lethal confrontations between police and minorities. "A small group of videos serve as an epidemic" Comey argued Sunday. People who think there is an epidemic of police shootings don't know if there is, and police don't know whether there is, because there is no national collection of police shooting reports. Some police departments report such numbers...(Read Full Post)