SpotCrime Weekly Reads

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Chicago's awful start to 2017,  2016 police and civilian deaths, shootings, body-cam dilemmas, and your dumb criminal of the week.

POLICE CONDUCT

1,085 People Killed by Police in the US in 2016 (The Guardian)

Why Some Problem Cops Don’t Lose Their Badges (Wall Street Journal)

Changing the “Culture of Policing”—One Recruit at a Time (TCR)

NYPD Changes Policy, Will Allow Officers to Wear Turbans (CNN)

NOPD improved response times in 2016, but effects of depleted force still widely felt (TheAdvocate)

Trump tweets Chicago might need federal help on violence (Chicago Tribune)

How to stop guns, gangs and poverty? Chicago seeks solutions after violent 2016 (Chicago Tribune)

CRIME RATE
Chicago: 4 in custody after mentally disabled man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live (Fox32)

2016 ends with 762 homicides; 2017 opens with fatal Uptown gunfight in Chicago (Chicago Tribune)


Modeling Contagion Through Social Networks to Explain and Predict Gunshot Violence in Chicago, 2006 to 2014 (JAMA Network)

What I Learned Tracking Every Mass Shooting in America and Europe in 2016 (VICE)

How do you track gun violence without tracking the number of people shot? (PJStar.com)

2017 New Orleans Gun Violence Forecast: A Similar Amount of Shootings Will Likely Produce More Murders (NOLACrimeNews.com)

Is America Experiencing a Murder Outbreak? It Depends On Your Block. (TheTrace)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Hennepin County judge: Body-cam footage is off-limits to public (Star Tribune)

‘CRIM-TECH’

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