Sec. 8. Department of Justice reports on SWAT teams
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In this section, the term SWAT team means a Special Weapons and Tactics team or other specialized tactical team composed of sworn law enforcement officers. The Attorney General shall collect and analyze data on the use of SWAT teams by Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. The data collected and analyzed by the Attorney General under subsection
(b)shall include— the number of deployments of SWAT teams; the reason for each deployment of a SWAT team; the composition of each SWAT team, including, at minimum, the number of members on each SWAT team; the number of law enforcement agencies with SWAT teams, categorized by the overall size of the law enforcement agencies; the number of SWAT teams composed of officers from multiple law enforcement agencies; the amount of initial training and ongoing training of SWAT teams being conducted; the community outreach undertaken to explain and publicize SWAT team deployment policies; information on the deployment of SWAT teams in low-income neighborhoods; and any other information that the Attorney General determines to be relevant. Not less frequently than once every 6 months, the Attorney General shall publish the data collected under subsection (b). Not less frequently than once every 5 years, the Attorney General shall publish a report that contains the analysis conducted under subsection (b).