Reading Room Document
Authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Investigate Police Killings
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is not presently authorized to investigate killings of non-federal law enforcement officers which involve only violations of state law, even in response to a presidential directive. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/22571/download.
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit