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POLICE CONDUCT

Sessions Takes Credit for Reversing Crime Wave; Criminologists Disagree (VOAnews.com)

Slow Down, Officer: An Experiment in ‘Building a Better Cop’ (TheCrimeReport.org)

Johnson County police agencies employ specialists to assist in mental health situations (FOX4KC)

Sessions in Louisville: Federal agents will help city in crackdown on drugs and gun violence (Courier Journal)

CRIME RATE

5 facts about crime in the U.S. (Pew Research Center)

An Updated Lead-Crime Roundup for 2018 (MotherJones)

Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to WV town with 2,900 people (Charleston Gazette-Mail)

LAPD analysis shows homicide victims are overwhelmingly young, nonwhite and poor (LA Times)

Kansas City’s epidemic of stolen guns hits new high (Kansas City Star)

Do ‘Fast and Furious’ Movies Cause a Rise in Speeding? (NYTimes)

Violent Crime Reduction Needs Context (CrimeInAmerica.net)

'CRIMTECH'

Ford patent details system for autonomous police cars

All NYPD patrol cops to get body cameras in 2018 (FOX5NY)

Estimating the Spatial Distribution of Crime Events around a Football Stadium from Georeferenced Tweets (MDPI)

Algorithms and Justice: Scrapping the ‘Black Box’ (TheCrimeReport.org)

Alphabet, Google’s Parent Company, Launches Chronicle for Cybersecurity (Sanvada.com)

Brianna's Law has matched more than 1,000 DNA samples to crimes (Reno Gazette Journal)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

'We owe it to the public' Florida bipartisan bill calls for better data (Hearld-Tribune)

AMERICA'S PRISON SYSTEM

SF will wipe thousands of marijuana convictions off the books (SFgate.com)

Can Higher Minimum Wages Keep People From Ending Up In Prison? (FastCompany)

Understaffing, Corners Cut At NC Prison Where 4 Died (WFMY News2)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Man accused of biting police dog in the head (WMUR)

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