SpotCrime Weekly Reads: addressing violence, crime's effects on the economy, predictive policing

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AMA aims at gun violence, how crime affects income inequality and housing prices, police partner with mental health, mass incarceration stats, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Columbus police testing new partnership with mental health experts (10TV)

As Cities Struggle To Solve Homicides, Louisville Looks To Atlanta (WFPL)

FBI busts international email fraud ring that stole millions (CNET)

Indy Officials Update Efforts On Targeted Crime Prevention (WFYI)

CRIME RATE

Scammers create a new form of theft: 'Synthetic-identity fraud' (CNBC)

The stark relationship between income inequality and crime (The Economist)

Do Crime Declines Produce Higher Housing Prices? (Mother Jones)

Study: Watching televised sports reduces crime (AOL)

In hopes of stopping bloodshed, a multimillion-dollar effort is providing jobs, therapy to city's most violent (Chicago Tribune)

Chicago and other major US cities saw drops in crime and murder in 2017 (Vox)

CA Prop. 47 is linked to increase in auto thefts, study says (San Francisco Chronicle)

Frustrated American Medical Association adopts sweeping policies aimed at gun violence (NBC News)

Urban Violence Creates Ripple Effects in Schools (Psych Central)

'CRIM-TECH'

This Predictive Policing Company Compares Its Software to ‘Broken Windows’ Policing (Motherboard)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

House bill would strengthen federal response to the opioid crisis using open data (FedScoop)

PRISON REFORM

Utah courts quietly rolled out a new way to set a suspect’s bail based on one’s risk. Bail bondsmen are not pleased. (Salt Lake Tribune)

Mass Incarceration’s Complex Statistics (CityLab)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Florida man chugged can of beer during DUI stop, deputy says (WGN9)

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