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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Algorithms and AI, surveillance, transparency

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Fake robberies in visa fraud scheme, managing mental health crises, digital dragnets, algorithmic bias in predictive policing, mass surveillance, license plate readers and privacy laws, AI to help solve cold cases, AI police radio app causes panic, body cam audit logs, FOIA, police transparency laws, geofencing warrants, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Cambridge Police Commissioner Christine Elow to Retire After More Than 30 years With Department  (CambridgeMA.gov) Police Chiefs Allegedly Faked Robberies in $5,000-a-Pop Visa Fraud Scheme  (The Wall Street Journal) Should police be turning up at all? Managing mental health crises in an English Constabulary under the Right Care, Right Person framework  (Taylor and Francis Online) Seaford police chief presents the department's new strategic plan  (Delaware Public Media) Ethics complaint raises serious allegations against Miami Police Chief Manny Morales  (Florida Politics) CRIME RATE Supreme Court weighs phone searches ...
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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Public safety dispatchers, transparency, police technology and crime

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911 dispatchers, use of force tracking, police staffing shortages, cost of police pursuits, hot spot and precision policing, AI driven crime, retail theft, tech transforming crime and terrorism, creepy surveillance, license plate readers, AI powered crime mapping, body cams, police drones, police transparency, police privacy v public access, earning a PhD in prison, and more... POLICE CONDUCT 'We get them home': Celebrating National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week  (WKBW) see also:  Portland 911 dispatchers weathered a crisis — now, they're among the best in the world  (KGW8) Why Missouri should stop shielding police misconduct from public view  (Missouri Independent) APD revamps use-of-force tracking, raising new transparency concerns  (Austin Current) City Council reviews police substation plans as crime data and staffing shortages spark debate  (Stocktonia) New Research Highlights the Cost of Police Pursuits  (Jeff-alytics) What Works in Americ...
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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Violent crime, automated license plate readers, prison data

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Arrest rates, policing grant pulled, community policing, use of force, gun violence intervention program, violent crime, Charlotte's Web operation, public art to reduce firearm injury, shutting down automated license plate readers, AI answering service calls, heavily redacted records about former officer, transparency around police chief firing, data behind prison reform, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Kansas City homicide rate of arrests, charges soars above national average  (KCTV5) The CSI Detective Who Smelled Trouble in Her Own Police Department  (The Wall Street Journal) Major Kalamazoo policing grant pulled a second time  (WOODTV) Large Police Departments May Be Starting To Grow  (Jeff-alytics) Incoming Greensboro Police Chief Kamran Afzal talks use of force, community policing, downtown crime: ‘Move the needle forward in Greensboro’  (Fox 8) Amid bleak outlook for Tenino police force, Sheriff’s Office takes over  (The Olympian) CRIME RATE Vallejo Police...
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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: AI in policing, crime rate, privacy

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No warrant DNA collection, increased policing to fight crime, cannabis legalization associated with lower crime rates, predicting crime, cameras and AI surveillance, automated police report drafting, balancing public safety and privacy, license plate readers, police transparency, body cam footage, corrections officer turned drug smuggler, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Under no-warrant DNA collection, any Georgian’s genetic data could end up in police custody  (Georgia Recorder) These Fort Worth neighborhoods will see increased policing to fight violent crime  (Fort Worth Star Telegram) Police suspend using Tri-City Flock cameras because of new WA law  (Tri-City Herald) CRIME RATE Most Crime Victims Know Their Offenders, Per The FBI  (Law Enforcement Today) Analysis: Cannabis Legalization Laws Associated With Lower Crime Rates  (NORML.org) How Camden, N.J., Cut Its Murder Rate to a 40-Year Low  (NY Times) Shootings up 78% in Chicago in one week, as city suffers...
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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Crime rate, surveillance tech, FOIA

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Tampa assistant police chief on leave, Afroman defamation suit, Colorado Springs dissolving police advisory committee, police military equipment, behavioral health unit, pregnant and postpartum gun deaths, violent crime drop, drop in opioid overdoses, surveillance drones and tech, Las Vegas police deploy AI, MA State police misconduct report, long police FOIA timelines, restorative justice diversions, and more... POLICE CONDUCT A Tampa assistant police chief is on leave. No one has said why  (Tampa Bay Times) Afroman prevails in cops' music video defamation suit after a brief but viral trial  (NPR) Jersey City to end 'fixed posts' for police, launch new data sharing  (Gothamist) Data breach linked to Crime Stoppers; Portland Police urge avoiding tip service for now  (KATU) Colorado Springs police advisory commission recommends dissolving  (KOAA) Fresno police will (finally) host a public military-equipment meeting — but is it enough?  (Fresnoland) Behaviora...
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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Crime decline, police technology, LAPD crime data

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Grand Rapids reviews policing after deadly shooting, cracking down on cargo theft, sweeping up data near a crime scene legalities, the great crime decline, police surveillance technology, politics of police technology adoption, facial recognition error lands grandmother in jail, automated license plate readers, LAPD lawsuit over public crime data, publicly available data and AI, ICE body cams, pepper spray reporting cut in Berkeley, prison reform, mass incarceration, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Grand Rapids unveils plan to review policing after deadly shooting  (WOODTV) Public Safety Leaders Back Bill to Crack Down on Cargo Theft  (Trucking.org) Minnesota bill says warrants that let police sweep up data near a crime scene should be illegal  (CBS News) CRIME RATE What's Behind the Great Crime Decline?  (KQED) see also:  What’s Behind the Historic Drop in U.S. Crime  (WSJ) CRIM-TECH Think More Carefully Before Going All In On Police Surveillance Technology ...
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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Surveillance, violent crime, mass incarceration

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Radio encryption,  public surveillance, lone wolf cyber attacks, murder and violent crime rate, impact of unilateral divorce on crime, gun violence in rural America, AI answering 911 calls, police drones, falsely accused because of license plate readers, police body cam transparency, what 911 data says about community needs, elderly parole program, mass incarceration, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Residents react to Decatur Police Department's announcement on encrypted dispatch, radio communications  (FOX54) see also:  Fairfax County Police will begin encrypting radio communication  (WUSA9) The Troubling Personal Side of Public Surveillance  (The Marshall Project) CRIME RATE Feds Warn Against Lone Wolf Cyber Attacks Amid Iran Conflict  (GovTech) What’s behind the ‘historic collapse’ in homicide and violent crime rates in major US cities  (CNN) see also:  There Were 14,000 Murders In The United States Last Year  (Jeff-alytics) Reality Check:...
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