SpotCrime Weekly Reads
Children and gun violence, Milwaukee Police review halted by DOJ, Equifax will probably get away with it, secret algorithms decide criminal trials, IoT and AI transform police, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
Cops weigh in: How police agencies are handling policy and training in the video age (PoliceOne.com)
After nurse’s arrest, Utah lawmakers will draft a bill that clarifies when police can draw someone’s blood (Salt Lake Tribune)
How Texas Turned the Page on Police Reform (TheCrimeReport.org)
CRIME RATE
Experts: Murder Rate Appears to Have Stopped Rising (New York Magazine)
Why Equifax Executives Will Get Away With the Worst Data Breach in History (Fortune) See also This former hedge fund guy is a one-man nonprofit investigating some of America’s shadiest companies (Nieman Lab)
Seven Days Of Heroin: This Is What An Epidemic Looks Like (Cincinnati.com)
Chicago marks 500th homicide of the year: 'It's never over' (Chicago Tribune)
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules on whether field sobriety tests can be used in marijuana drugged driving cases (MassLive.com)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
LMPD reverses course, making weekly detailed crime reports public (InsiderLouisville)
When can police body cam footage be withheld from the public? A TX senator wants to know. (ElPasoTimes.com)
Secret Algorithms Are Deciding Criminal Trials and We’re Not Even Allowed to Test Their Accuracy (ACLU.org)
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