SpotCrime Weekly Reads: AI failing, police databases, legal marijuana

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Legal marijuana crime stats, centralized police databases, AI predictive policing is bad policy, VA police uses bitcoin in pension fund, violent crime spikes in cities who worked with DOJ, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Are Cops Afraid To Make Arrests? (CrimeInAmerica.net)

Sweet footage shows Virginia police officer entertain children with dolls after emergency call (AOL)

Pa. taxpayers continue funding state troopers in towns without cops after years of capitol debate (WITF)

Dramatic body cam video shows desperate effort to save woman from burning house in Oskaloosa County (Fox10)

Virginia Police Department Reveals Why its Pension Fund is Betting on Bitcoin (CNN)

CRIME RATE

Violent crime skyrockets in cities who work with fed to curb police shootings (KOAT)

As North Dakota’s oil patch surged, so did violent crime (TwinCities.com)

A New Study Disproves Long-Held Beliefs on Both Sides of Cannabis Debate (Inverse) see also: Marijuana dispensaries associated with rise, then decline in some neighborhood crime (EurekaAlert)

Lawmakers pass ‘Tommie’s Law’ to make animal cruelty charge a felony in Virginia (WTVR)

CRIM-TECH

Maryland bill would prohibit using DNA databases to solve crimes (WTOP)

Predictive policing in DOJ-cited jurisdictions is bad policy, AI Now says (MuckRock) see also: AIs Quickly Learn to Collude (MarginalRevolution) and also: Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm is Fundamentally Flawed (MotherBoard)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Why centralized police databases are force multipliers (PoliceOne) see also: How police agencies can share criminal intelligence data (PoliceOne)

PRISON REFORM

Data-driven justice: algorithms are little better than magic 8-ball in determining risk assessment (Milwaukee Independent)

Increase in Female Inmates Linked to Opioid Crisis, Poverty (TheCrimeReport.org)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Jussie Smollett Arrested as He Faces Felony Charge for Allegedly Filing False Police Report (People)

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