SpotCrime Weekly Reads
Comey fired, 900 pedophiles arrested, 'Open By Default' in DC, big data bias, what cops aren't learning, and more...
FBI Director Comey Fired by Trump (NY Times)
Columbus police find officer’s stomping of suspect ‘unreasonable’ (Columbus Dispatch)
What cops aren’t learning (RevealNews.org)
San Jose’s rape kit backlog is over twice the official count (MuckRock)
Criminology Leaders Assail Trump for “Uninformed Policy Initiatives” (TheCrimeReport)
Hennepin County sheriff joins new Shield private-sector partnership (StarTribune)
'Backdoor' Search Of FBI Records Helps Parents Learn How Local Cops Killed Their Son (TechDirt)
CRIME RATE
Penn State fraternity hazing death of Timothy Piazza: 18 students charged (Today.com)
900 suspected pedophiles arrested as ‘darknet’ child porn kingpin jailed for 30yrs (RT.com)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Not just for books: Public libraries partnering with police to engage communities with open data (Police Data Initiative)
Updated N.Y.P.D. Anti-Crime System to Ask: ‘How We Doing?’ (NY Times)
D.C. announces 'open by default' data policy (StateScoop)
San Francisco Puts Crime Statistics at Residents’ Fingertips (21stCenturyState)
‘CRIM-TECH’
Why big-data analysis of police activity is inherently biased (TheConversation.com)
Emotion reading technology claims to spot criminals before they act (Telegraph)
New Model Predicts Which Mentally Ill Patients Are Unlikely To Be Violent (American Council on Health and Science)
AMERICA’S PRISON SYSTEM
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