Newspaper database shows police killings of Kenyans on the increase
NAIROBI- Police killings of Kenyans are on the rise, a Kenyan newspaper said on Sunday, as it published the country's first comprehensive database detailing hundreds of such alleged killings in the past two years.
The Daily Nation, one of Kenya's top selling newspapers, said it hoped the database covering 262 killings since the beginning of 2015 would help policymakers tackle police impunity.
Kenya's struggle to track such killings has many parallels with the United States, the paper's data editor Dorothy Otieno said. In both countries, the lack of official information about police killings prompted the national media to begin compiling their own statistics, she said.
In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced last week it would begin tracking police use of deadly force, US media reported. But Kenyan authorities do not track police killings.
