SpotCrime Weekly Reads - school shootings, crime rates, whistleblowers

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Parkland school shooting is number 18 of 2018 (it's only February), Sacramento crime drop attributed to community policing, algorithms can tell when kids are in danger, DNA imaging tech helps solve cold cases, Chicago murder clearance rate and gun violence decreases, rethinking probation, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

West Palm Beach Police lieutenant files whistleblower lawsuit against the city (WPTV)

ATF ballistics database would get budget bump (FCW)

2 cops, 2 stories: LPD internal affairs finds few facts, but leaders say 1 sworn officer is lying (The
Ledger)

Murder ‘clearance’ rate in Chicago hit new low in 2017 (Chicago Sun Times) See Also: Los Angeles-style policing driving down Chicago shootings, city’s experts say (Chicago Sun Times)

CRIME RATE

There have already been 18 school shootings in the US this year: Everytown (ABC News) See also:  After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shot in Over 200 School Shootings (NY Times)

Crime drops again in Sacramento (SacBee)

Crime May Be Near an All-Time Low (Bloomberg)

High Crime Residents Want More Cops-Gallup (CrimeInAmerica.net)

Las Vegas rape crisis center sees uptick in help requests (LV Review Journal)

States Set Aside Millions of Dollars for Crime Victims. But Some Gun Violence Survivors Don’t Get the Funds They Desperately Need. (The Trace)

Exposure to Air Pollution May Lead to Unethical Behavior (Psych Central)

'CRIMETECH'

Building on DNA: How imaging technology could help solve cold cases (ABC13)

Spyware can copy your cellphone info. More police are employing it (Miami Herald)

IMPD prepares for new high-tech system with potential to anticipate crime (FOX59)

Can an Algorithm Tell When Kids Are in Danger? (NY Times)

Evaluating the impact of police body cam footage (KWCH12)

Ogden’s real time crime center yielding real big results (Fox13NOW)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Activists demand details on ‘secretive’ LAPD crime-fighting tool (LA Daily News)

Richmond police chief announces ‘open data portal’ (The Richmond Standard)

AMERICA'S PRISON SYSTEM

Is Probation Set Up To Fail? (CrimeInAmerica.net) See Also: Raising the Minimum Wage Can Reduce Recidivism: Study (TheCrimeReport.org)

3 Milwaukee jail staffers charged in dehydration death of mentally ill inmate (NBC News)

Gov. Rick Snyder: State to end problem-plagued privatization experiment with prison food (Detroit Free Press)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Speeding woman tells police she's the Virgin Mary on her way to pick up Baby Jesus (IBTimes)

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