SpotCrime Weekly Reads: analytics help police, risk based policing decreases crime, fighting gangs with tech, nonfatal shooting data and more...

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POLICE CONDUCT

New DNA law leading to more matches, including a break in a rape case (WTHR)

Modernizing Crime Statistics: New Systems for Measuring Crime (TheGovLab)

Gilbert: Law enforcement agencies notified Wilkes-Barre police chief altered reports (Times-Leader)

Sacramento police unveil body cam policy after protests (SacBee)

Violent Acts in Public Places Fuel Interest in Secure Design (Route Fifty)

Analytics help city police connect the dots across databases (GCN.com)

Criminal-Justice Officials Should Stand Up to Mental-Health Officials (National Review) see also: Woman who helped dramatically reduce youth murders in Scotland urges London to treat violence as a 'disease' (The Independent)

CRIME RATE

Atlantic City's violent crime decreases with risk-based policing initiative (PressofAtlanticCity.com)

Fear Of Growing Crime Prompts More Active Neighborhood Involvement (CBS Denver)

Michigan Rated Worst State In The Country For Identity Theft (CBS Detroit)

The Evolution of Online Scams: 21 game-changing digital crimes [INFOGRAPHIC] (NetImperative)

Studying Gang Tweets Could Reduce Gun Violence, Researchers Say (TheCrimeReport.org)

The Center for Homicide Research is on a quest to end murder (CityPages)

Sex crimes against children far outnumber adult-victim cases in South Carolina (Greenville News)

'CRIM-TECH'

How Police in One City Are Using Tech to Fight Gangs (Governing)

Opioid Crisis: How 4 health providers are using tech to fight the epidemic (HealthDataManagement)

Niagara Falls adding more cameras to crime-fighting arsenal (Spectrum News)

Discriminating algorithms: 5 times AI showed prejudice (New Scientist)

Cops use fingerprint pulled from a WhatsApp photo to nab drug traffickers (Digital Trends)

The real Minority Report: AI that studies CCTV to predict crime BEFORE it happens will be rolled out in India (DailyMail)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

The Value of Nonfatal Shooting Data - A Police Foundation Webinar Resources (Police Foundation)

PRISON REFORM

7 inmates killed in 'mass casualty incident' at SC maximum security prison (The State)

When Bail Feels Less Like Freedom, More Like Extortion (NYTimes)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Connecticut high school teacher started a classroom 'fight club,' police say (USA Today)

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