---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12602"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12602"
heading: "Data on use of excessive force"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12602"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter VIII — State and Local Law Enforcement"
  - "Part B — Police Pattern or Practice"
---

# §12602. Data on use of excessive force

- (a) **Attorney General to collect—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall, through appropriate means, acquire data about the use of excessive force by [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) officers.
- (b) **Limitation on use of data—** Data acquired under this section shall be used only for research or statistical purposes and may not contain any information that may reveal the identity of the victim or any [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) officer.
- (c) **Annual summary—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall publish an annual summary of the data acquired under this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210402, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2071.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14142 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.