SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Criminal justice data, regulating algorithms, Baltimore scrutiny, gun violence, and more...

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Criminal justice data for prison reform, regulating algorithms, Baltimore scrutiny, gun violence, Apple watch helps investigators, new mental health unit, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Pugh says new police technology, changes to recruiting will continue to lower violence rates (Baltimore Business Journal)

St. Paul Police launch new Mental Health Unit (KARE11)

How heroin overdoses in the suburbs exposed Baltimore's corrupt police squad, the Gun Trace Task Force (Baltimore Sun)

To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google (WRAL)

Are America’s Police Getting an Unfair Rap? (TheCrimeReport.org)

Why There Are So Many Bad Sheriffs (Governing)

CRIME RATE

Patriots’ Julian Edelman May Have Thwarted a School Shooting (NYTimes)

Multiple Cleveland homes sprayed with bullets Easter night (Cleveland19)

Guns are responsible for the largest share of U.S. homicides in over 80 years, federal mortality data shows (WaPo)

Firearm, Violent and Immigration Offenders Reoffend Most (CrimeInAmerica.net) see also: Age, criminal history define recidivism (Pantagraph)

Convicted Domestic Abusers Will No Longer Be Able To Own Guns In New York State (HuffPo)

Data shows more human trafficking cases reported to helplines in 2017 (CBSIndy4)

'CRIM-TECH'

New SDPD Crime Lab Unit Recovers Deleted Data, Restores Damaged Cellphones (NBC San Diego)

Apple Watch health data became the key for police on a murder case (Mashable)

ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, goes live in Calumet City (Chicago Tribune)

The Right Way to Regulate Algorithms (Data-Smart City Solutions)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Minneapolis Police Announce Changes to Body Camera Policy (ABC5)

PRISON REFORM

Missing: Criminal Justice Data (NYTimes)

Juvenile Justice Big Data in the Era of Big Policing (Juvenile Justice Information Exchange)

'Desperate' Kentucky county seeks salvation in a new prison (NBC News)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Woman sets ex-boyfriend on fire after inviting him over for Easter dinner (FOX35)

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