Require reports on violence against law enforcement?

Crime and Law Enforcement (e.g., Gun Laws)
Improving Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness Through Data Act (H.R. 2240)
This bill has Passed the House of Representatives
Bill Summary

This bill requires the Attorney General to compile and report data on violent incidents involving law enforcement officers, including ambushes and coordinated attacks. It also calls for evaluations of current training programs, use of protective equipment, and mental health resources available to officers. The aim is to assess the nature of such incidents, review existing support systems, and recommend improvements or new legislative tools, if needed. Reports must be developed in consultation with law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders at various levels. Sponsor: Rep. Tim Moore (Republican, North Carolina, District 14)
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Opponents say

•      "This legislation is unlikely to provide any meaningful improvements to officer safety or mental health because it only requires reporting from the Attorney General and fails to build on the work of President Biden, the Attorney General, and past Congresses to improve officer safety and mental health. While the collection of accurate law enforcement data is important, this bill is unlikely to provide new information. By necessity, data about incidents of violence against law enforcement officers must be initially collected and reported, if at all, by tribal, state, and local authorities who would know about these incidents, not the Attorney General. The federal government collects this data through tribal, state, and local participation in voluntary data reporting programs like those described above. But nothing in this bill provides any resources for more agencies to participate in those data collections, nor does it mandate any kind of reporting by those agencies." Source: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (Democrat, New York, District 10), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee

Proponents say

•      "At a time when anti-police sentiment is rising and our officers are being targeted simply for wearing the badge, we need to stand up and say enough is enough. These are the men and women who run toward danger when others run away. This bill ensures we’re not turning a blind eye to the threats they face and the toll this job takes by improving how we track attacks, exposing patterns of violence, and making sure officers have access to the mental health care they’ve earned. If we want safe communities, we have to take care of the people who keep them safe." Source: Rep. Tim Moore (Republican, North Carolina, District 14), the sponsor of this bill 

•      "Law enforcement officers across the country are experiencing an increase in violence deliberately targeting them. In 2023, 378 officers were shot in the line of duty—which is the highest total since the FOP began tracking this data in 2015—and 46 of these officers were killed. The lethality of these attacks would have been much higher but for the advances in medical trauma science and improvements in anti-ballistic technology. The continued rise in deliberate attacks on law enforcement is contributing to a crisis in recruiting the next generation of law enforcement officers and holding on to current officers, whose morale and mental health is negatively impacted. In an effort to better understand these attacks and support our men and women in law enforcement, your legislation would expand the data collected by the Federal government on attacks and aggressions against law enforcement officers in a comprehensive way. This data would augment the information collected through the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) program, the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to capture “aggressive actions, conduct, or other trauma-inducing incidents” aimed at officers. This information and recommendations would then be submitted to Congress." Source: Patrick Yoes, President of the National Fraternal Order of Police

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