SpotCrime Weekly Reads: AI in policing, image based sexual abuse, radio encryption
Oakland 911 answer times improving, reasons for traffic stops, police surveillance, police shortage in Philadelphia, image based sexual abuse, deepfake criminalization legislation, truancy and violent crime, ghost guns, police radio encryption, AI to predict crime, AI to write police reports, Ohio new body cam video charges, rethinking girls' incarceration, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
Tulsa’s surveillance gamble (The Frontier)
Did Colorado lawmakers try to bar police from asking, “Do you know why I pulled you over?” (The Colorado Sun)
Chicago expanding program to allow police officers to file felony gun charges without review by prosecutors (CBS News)
CRIME RATE
How The Media Is ‘Economically Exploiting’ Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse. Five things you probably didn’t know about the crime better known as ‘revenge porn’ (Byline Times) see also: Revenge porn victim 'constantly paranoid' after topless images shared online (BBC) and also: New Jersey Governor Signs Law Criminalizing Deepfakes (GovTech)
Oregon has spent $46 million fighting black market cannabis. Officials can’t tell if it’s working (OPB)
Fields of victimization: when crime generates crime (Springer Nature Link)
CRIM-TECH
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill (The Guardian) see also: Can AI predict who will commit crime? (Biometric Update)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Montgomery County Police Working to Encrypt Radio Communications (Montgomery Community Media) see also: Snohomish County law enforcement to encrypt police airwaves (Herald Net)
Discover how a bill almost changed public access to police records (Atlanta News First)
Journalists’ demand for ‘Cop City’ records puts Atlanta Police Foundation secrecy on trial (Atlanta Civic Circle)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
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