NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WMOT) -- The Daily Beast says Tennessee broke federal law by failing to provide a full, yearly accounting of the number of residents who die at the hands of police.
A 2000 federal law required the annual report beginning in 2003. The publication says Tennessee missed the 2003 filing, but has delivered the report every year since.
According to The Daily Beast, Georgia has never reported the number of police-involved justifiable homicides.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says 143 state residents have died at the hands of police in the past 15 years. That’s an average of 9.5 deaths per year. The number peaked at 19 deaths in 2012.