SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Crime dropped in 2018, gun violence reaches record highs, AI to predict crime

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Psychopathy and homicides connected, familicide boom, winter thaws bring crime spikes, gun violence reaching record highs, AI to fight hate rime, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Deputies pull burning man from car into a puddle to put out flames, Texas bodycam shows (Star-Telegram)

Officers recognized for going above and beyond (The Daily Sentinel)

Police body cam shows drunk driving arrest of Midland County sheriff (mlive.com)

Police chiefs have concerns as state mandates new data collection (East Oregonian)

Amazon Teams With Cops To Catch Crooks (Pymnts.com)

Uber, Crimestoppers Partner For Pilot Crime Reporting Program In Jacksonville (WJCT)

CRIME RATE

Crime in the 30 largest US cities dropped in 2018 (Smart Cities Dive) see also: Crime and murder fell in America’s most populous cities in 2018 (Vox)

New research by criminologist shows a significant connection between psychopathy and homicides (Medical Express)

Suicide and Gun Death Data Shows Potential for a Familicide Boom (Fatherly)

Winter Thaws Can Bring Violent Crime Spikes: Study (TheCrimeReport.org)

An Atlas of American Gun Violence Five years. More than 150,000 shootings. How has gun violence marked your corner of the country? (The Trace) see also: Gun deaths in US reach record-high (CNA)

Lists of Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse Are Spilling Out Across the Country (NYTimes)

Police: Most hate crimes in Pittsburgh motivated by race (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

CRIM-TECH

A Growing Response to School Shootings: Panic Buttons -- on Phones (Governing)

Using deep learning and satellite imagery to quantify the impact of built environment on neighborhood crime rates (Cornell)

AI tools could predict spates of hate crime (Engineering & Technology)

This startup is helping police curb crime rate using artificial intelligence (Money Control)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Orlando Police Chief Wants to Use Data Studies to Help Reduce Crime (News13)

PRISON REFORM

Incarceration Data Reveals ‘Sharp Urban-Rural Divide’ Across US (TheCrimeReport.org)

Sex worker advocates demand SFPD shut down unit focused on street prostitution (San Fran Examiner)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

YouTuber's glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves (BBC)

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