SpotCrime Weekly Reads

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States changing policing laws, hackers set up emergency sirens, Taser offers free body cams, San Bernardino Elementary school shooting, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Seattle police make dramatic turnaround with use-of-force reforms, federal monitor finds (Seattle Times)

Demoralized Chicago Police officers change union presidents (Chicago Sun Times)

LEO NEAR MISS: A voluntary, non-disciplinary reporting system that allows law enforcement personnel to read about and anonymously share “close calls” or “near misses”, which provide lessons learned that can protect others from similar incidents. (leonearmiss.org)

Sheriff uses threatening video to warn heroin dealers in Florida (St Louis Today)

To Protect and Serve: New Trends in State-Level Policing Reform, 2015-2016 (Vera.org)

One sign protests over police are working: states are changing their laws (Vox.com)

CRIME RATE
UT REPORT RELEASED: 15 percent of undergraduate women raped, data show (Statesman.com)

Hackers set off Dallas’ 156 emergency sirens over a dozen times (ArsTechnia.com)

How Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the war on drugs (Washington Post)

Three people, including an 8-year-old male student, were killed in murder-suicide at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, Calif. (Time.com)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Norman Police Department becomes first Oklahoma law enforcement agency to join initiative to make data more transparent (OUDaily.com)

If you publish Georgia’s state laws, you’ll get sued for copyright and lose. In some states, you can't read the law without paying a corporation. (ArsTechnica.com) See also: How private contractors are taking over data in the public domain (Reveal)

‘CRIM-TECH’

“CEO of Purple Drank” found guilty: Instagram photos could help put him behind bars for life (VICE)

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