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POLICE CONDUCT
Wilmington police strategy making inroads (Delawareonline.com)

Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case (Endgadget)

Man killed, Eastern Shore deputy injured in Chestertown shooting (Baltimore Sun)
Tear gas and K-9 end 11-hour Lakeland police standoff (TheLedger)

Allhands: Why Phoenix Police needs more civilians (AZCentral.com)

The Reasonable Killing of an 89-Pound Boy: A child is gunned down for stealing change in heavily armed St. Louis, and Missouri gets a taste of what justice looks like when the NRA calls the shots. (The Trace)

 POLICE TRANSPARENCY
'Nerds' brainstorm uses for open city data. Even public safety data is in the pipeline. (MontgomeryAdvertiser.com)

A look inside SLCPD's CompStat meeting (Good4Utah.com)

‘CRIM-TECH’
Neosho Police Department receives grant for body, car cameras (JoplinLobe.com)

Report: Drone Legislation a Priority for States Across the U.S. (GovTech)

States Take Varied Approaches to Regulating Body Camera Footage (GovTech)

AMERICA’S PRISON SYSTEM
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard. (Mother Jones)

Okla. DOC population surpasses 61,000 (EnidNews)

Nation’s Prison Population Dropped 2 Percent in 2015 (TheCrimeReport)

Grace Notes: Over-the-top sentence underscores need for criminal justice reforms (TheAdvocate)

Missouri Bill takes aim at prison overcrowding (NewsPressNow.com)

2016: States Home to Success on Effective Justice Reforms (USJuscticeActionNetwork)

CRIME RATE
Montana’s Tragic Drug Relapse (TheCrimeReport)

The Reckoning: Fifty years ago, when Claire Wilson was eighteen, she was critically wounded during the 1966 University of Texas Tower shooting—the first massacre of its kind. How does the path of a bullet change a life? (TexasMonthly)

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