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Confidence in police is back, changing Miranda rights may be in the future, solving US gun violence, qualities of successful open data, FOIA turns 51, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Policing and Public Health—Strategies for Collaboration (JAMA Network)

Slain NYPD officer 'died a patriot,' mayor says at funeral (ABC) See Also: Police Blast Judge After Man Tried to Steal Officer's Gun at Precinct is Released (NBCNewYork)

Confidence in Police Back at Historical Average (Gallup)

Change Miranda rights, University of Utah professors say, because they’re ‘handcuffing the cops’ (Salt Lake Tribune)

Judge slams Oakland leaders in police sex scandal (SFGate)

Federal grand jury indicts Baltimore police officers on additional robbery charges (Baltimore Sun)

Connecticut Just Banned Civil Forfeiture Without A Criminal Conviction (Forbes) See also: Civil asset forfeiture hits poor people hardest (TribLive)

CRIME RATE


Group Touts Early Success With New Chicago Crime Hotline (USNews)

Oregon bill decriminalizes possession of heroin, cocaine and other drugs (WaPo) See also: Goal of nation's first opioid court: Keep users alive (TimesUnion)

Journalists, Mass Shootings and the ‘Copycat Effect’ (TheCrimeReport) See also: Lawmakers pass bill to take guns away from those deemed at risk of suicide, shooting sprees (Oregon Live)


Stockton program would pay men not to shoot each other (KCRA)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Open Data, the Criminal Justice System, and the Police Data Initiative (DataCivilRights.com) See also: Qualities of successful open crime data (SpotCrime blog)

N.J. Supreme Court: Dash-cam footage of fatal police shootings is public (NorthJersey.com)

‘CRIM-TECH’

The Ex-Cop at the Center of Controversy Over Crime Prediction Tech (Bloomberg) See also: Policing Risk: Predicting the Litigation Risk in Predictive Policing Tech (HuffPo)



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