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By SpotCrime December 22, 2016

Chicago Goes 4 Days Without Fatal Shooting, Indy Chief resigns, ‘Threat Scores’, FBI Crime Map, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

San Francisco Police Instate New Use Of Force Policy (ABC7)

Columbia police get federal grant for more officers (ABC17)

Heroes for Helpers: local law enforcement helps buy gifts for underprivileged kids (NBCRightNow.com)

Former Milwaukee police officer charged in fatal shooting (CNN)

Indianapolis Police Chief Troy Riggs Resigns (IndyStar)

Police Accreditation: Learning About CALEA (SpotCrime)

84% of Americans Oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture (CATO Institute)

New Orleans Agrees To Pay $13.3 Million For Police Post-Katrina Killings (HuffPo)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Schools With Police But No School Counselors: A Closer Look (Edweek.org)

Slow down! Here are DC’s speed traps and red light cameras (Technic.ly)

‘CRIM-TECH’

Police are starting to use software which assigns people "threat scores" based on social media presence (MuckRock)

Albany Crime Analysis Center Renovation Opens (TimesUnion)

AMERICA’S PRISON SYSTEM

Jury assures Dylann Roof will never walk free again (WRAL)

Lost girls: Young women face harsher punishment in Maryland’s juvenile justice system (Baltimore Sun)

Transforming Rehabilitation so far; Inspecting New Public/Private Probation System.

Obama grants 78 pre-Christmas pardons in last-minute clemency push (USAToday)

Inmate suicide response offers glimpse of Orleans sheriff's legal team in action (NOLA.com)

Tennessee man gets $75 to ‘restart life’ after being wrongly imprisoned for 31 years (Fox59.com)

Decades of Neglect Underpins $1.65 Billion Prisons Request (Fortune.com)

Top cop accused of thrwarting investigations quits Florida prison system (Miami Herald)

CRIME RATE

Chicago Goes Four Days Without Fatal Shooting (Chicago SunTimes)

FBI unveils new crime map that aims to be criminal database of the future (Fox13Now)

Three years ago, a new dad went to an NFL game and never made it home (WaPo)

Heroin Is Now The Leading Cause Of Overdose Deaths In The U.S. (Forbes)

Rising Violent Crime in 13 U.S. Cities: Report (TheCrimeReport)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Phony officer tried to pull over real one, St. Louis police say (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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