You won't believe what happens when a police officer wrongfully shoots a suspect dead - FBI calls for overhaul of system

Despite an abundance of evidence, prosecutors refuse to file charges.

Police officers within six Southern California counties have shot and killed over 2,000 suspects, yet only one officer has been prosecuted. That officer was later acquitted.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to the LA Times, police officers within six Southern California counties are responsible for killing suspects on a regular basis.

Whether these officers had justification is irrelevant as prosecutors admit eyewitness statements, forensic evidence, and even videos of officer shootings are cast aside because it would be too difficult to convince a jury that the officers did not do shoot in legitimate fear for their lives.

The LA Times' source is not mentioned, but, if their numbers are correct, officers stationed in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial counties are responsible for more shootings than all terror attacks in America since 2001.

As of 2011, 28 percent of homicides at the hands of law enforcement officers go unreported in the United States.

According to The Guardian, the FBI has called for an overhaul for its counting system to more accurately reflect the number of deaths caused by police in the United States.

Other information to be released includes deadly encounters involving Tasers, fatal shootings and death by other forces.

President Obama said: "The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it. We've become numb to this."

In an effort to bring about change, Senior FBI official Stephen Fischer from West Virginia said his division "identified a need for more robust and complete information about encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens that result in a use of force. 

When officers within the six Southern California counties are in court due to suspicions of misconduct, they are often punished with anything from a reprimand to dismissal, but more often than not they are not charged.

Steve Cooley, the L.A. County district attorney from 2000 to 2012, told the LA Times, "Like it or not, the law provides huge cover for the police in these situations."

The failure to provide easily-accessed public records for police shootings and other police-related acts of injustice resulted in last's year's comment from James Comey, the head of the FBI, who said: "It is unacceptable that the Washington Post and the Guardian newspaper from the UK are becoming the lead source of information about violent encounters between [US] police and civilians."

He continued, saying: "You can get online and figure out how many tickets were sold to the Martian...the CDC can do the same with the flu. It's ridiculous - embarrassing and ridiculous - that we can't talk about crime in the same way, especially in the high-stakes incidents when your officers have to use force."

Currently, the most accurate and up-to-date count of killings by police around the United States is a pilot program called The Counted.

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