SpotCrime Weekly Reads: genealogy, mugshots, predicting crimes, facial recognition

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Predicting crimes hits departments nationwide, not sure why homicide rates rising, Amazon deploys facial recognition tech with police departments, using DNA and genealogy to solve murder cases, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Mining Social Media Data for Policing, the Ethical Way (Data-Smart City Solutions)

DPS says body cam clears trooper of sexual assault; accuser’s attorney apologizes (WFAA)

What LEOs wish the public knew about ALPR technology and data usage (PoliceOne.com)

CRIME RATE

Sex offender registry: More harm than good? (CT Mirror)

No Easy Explanation for U.S. Homicide Rise: Criminologists (TheCrimeReport.org) 

Violent Crimes Reported to Police Hit Record Lows (CrimeInAmerica.net)

The unconscionable backlog of unprocessed rape kits in California (LATimes)

Eight charts on guns in America (Newsday)

Managing risk: How organized crime has changed the retail security business (Kentucky.com)

Posting mugshots on internet draws criminal charges from California attorney general (Sacramento Bee)

'CRIM-TECH'

NSF Research Grant to Predict Crime, Social Harms  (Efficient Gov) see also: Memphis PD: New computer program will help predict crimes (FOX13) and also: How the LAPD uses data to predict crime (Wired)

Inside St. Louis' Real Time Crime Center, Cameras, Cameras Everywhere (Riverfront Times)

Catching a Killer in the Family Tree (Bloomberg) see also: The Coming Wave of Murders Solved by Genealogy (The Atlantic)

Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police. Critics See Surveillance Risk. (NYTimes) see also: Orlando Police Testing Amazon's Real-Time Facial Recognition (NPR)

Axon Enterprise Now Owns the Police Body Cam Market (Motley Fool)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Contra Costa grand jury to BART police: Be more transparent (Mercury News)

PRISON REFORM

Spending on Inmate Mental Health Cuts the Cost of Crime: White House Study (TheCrimeReport.org)

Maryland Leads as Prison Populations Continue to Decline (The Marshall Project)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Driver allegedly tries to pass off homemade cardboard license plate as real (ABC13)

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