How can we address concerns about 'use of force', how can we address concerns about officer-involved shootings if we do not have a reliable grasp on the demographics and circumstances of those incidents? We simply must improve the way we collect and analyze data to see the true nature of what’s happening in all of our communities.

Let’s stop making wild guesses and start gathering data.

Without complete and accurate data, we are left with 'ideological thunderbolts'. And that helps spark unrest and distrust and does not help us get better. Because we must get better, I intend for the FBI to be a leader in urging departments around this country to give us the facts we need for an informed discussion, the facts all of us need, to help us make sound policy and sound decisions with that information.

Big or small; data is the evidence that defends the truth in your story.

to truly solve society's problems, we need to open up more data.
this is especially true in the medical and health world -- more data has the potential to triple or even quadruple health outcomes.

We simply must find ways to see each other more clearly. And part of that has to involve collecting and sharing better information about encounters between police and citizens, especially violent encounters.

Data are not the same as information. Before you can get the answers you want, you have to ask the right question.

The fact must be expressed as data, but there is a problem in that the correct data is difficult to catch. So that I always say "When you see the data, doubt it!" "When you see the measurement instrument, doubt it! ... For example, if the methods such as sampling, measurement, testing and chemical analysis methods were incorrect, data ... to measure true characteristics and in an unavoidable case, using statistical sensory test and express them as data.

Women’s representation in decision-making is still lacking. We still have to have more women. That is why data collection is important because with it we can hold the government accountable. We are the majority, if we support each other and vote for each other I think this inadequate of women’s representation will be a thing of the past.

In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?

Data is transformed into graphics to understand. A map, a diagram are documents to be interrogated. But understanding means integrating all of the data. In order to do this it’s necessary to reduce it to a small number of elementary data. This is the objective of the “data treatment” be it graphic or mathematic.

The most important thing about data, which people often forget, is that it has to be true.
Truth beats everything.

You can’t build a good model with data that is just 65% accurate

I recently listened to a thoughtful big city police chief express his frustration with that lack of reliable data. He said he didn’t know whether the Ferguson police shot one person a week, one a year, or one a century, and that in the absence of good data, “all we get are ideological thunderbolts, when what we need are ideological agnostics who use information to try to solve problems.” He’s right.

We now need the data to know the extent of what is happening, and what we are hearing from police who are doing it is that it transforms the way they deal with violence against women, because it makes the link between misogyny and violence.