SpotCrime Weekly Reads: PredPol software under scrutiny, backlog rape kits tested, poverty and crime
PredPol program shut down in some cities but kept on in others, civilian oversight of police agencies debated, gun laws and mass shootings connected, connection between poverty and crime, Shotspotter pros and cons, prison reform, and more...
LAPD to change crime data program as activists tell Police Commission to ‘shut it down’ (LA Times) see also: Eight years in, LAPD can’t measure PredPol’s effect on crime (MuckRock) and also: Audit Finds LAPD Predictive Policing Programs Lack Oversight (Courthouse News) and: Baltimore set to renew contract with predictive policing group, citing violence declines in targeted areas (Baltimore Sun) and finally: Bay Area police try out controversial AI software that tells them where to patrol (Mercury News)
5 examples of how evidence-based policing enhances law enforcement (PoliceOne)
City disputes crime data story as it enters political realm (Kokomo Tribune)
New York, feds join to get 100K rape kits tested around US (Associated Press)
Pomona residents are calling for civilian oversight of police department, here’s how the chief sees it (Daily Bulletin)
Suspended Broward Sheriff Scott Israel files lawsuit, demands job back (Miami Herald)
Study Adds Evidence To Association Between Gun Laws And Mass Shootings (KUNC)
Are Controversial Programs in Detroit Actually Reducing Crime? (WDET)
An App For Mapping Crime, or Urban Paranoia? (CityLab)
The Tragedy of Baltimore (NYTimes)
Leaders Weighs Pros and Cons of ShotSpotter in Durham, N.C. (GovTech.com)
Police Are Using "Reverse Search Warrants" To Get Your Location Data (Cheddar)
All NYPD patrol officers now wear body cameras (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
La Gordiloca: The Swearing Muckraker Upending Border Journalism (NYTimes)
The university that is helping to pioneer self driving cars is still putting their crime information on paper (CMU)
Interactive map: A week of crime in San Diego County (San Diego Union-Tribune)
City police to provide more — but not all — arrest data (The Daily Progress)
Insanity defendants re-offend half as often as convicts after discharge, report says (KATU)
Maryland retail, restaurant industries join national push to hire former inmates (Baltimore Sun)
Can Prosecutors Help Break the Cycle of Recidivism? (TheCrimeReport.org)
Keeping the Lights On: Incarcerating the Bluegrass State (Vera.org)
POLICE CONDUCT
Bodycam shows officers save man from burning car seconds before it explodes (ABC30)LAPD to change crime data program as activists tell Police Commission to ‘shut it down’ (LA Times) see also: Eight years in, LAPD can’t measure PredPol’s effect on crime (MuckRock) and also: Audit Finds LAPD Predictive Policing Programs Lack Oversight (Courthouse News) and: Baltimore set to renew contract with predictive policing group, citing violence declines in targeted areas (Baltimore Sun) and finally: Bay Area police try out controversial AI software that tells them where to patrol (Mercury News)
5 examples of how evidence-based policing enhances law enforcement (PoliceOne)
City disputes crime data story as it enters political realm (Kokomo Tribune)
New York, feds join to get 100K rape kits tested around US (Associated Press)
Pomona residents are calling for civilian oversight of police department, here’s how the chief sees it (Daily Bulletin)
Suspended Broward Sheriff Scott Israel files lawsuit, demands job back (Miami Herald)
CRIME RATE
Poverty and crime: What's the connection? (GazetteXtra)Study Adds Evidence To Association Between Gun Laws And Mass Shootings (KUNC)
Are Controversial Programs in Detroit Actually Reducing Crime? (WDET)
An App For Mapping Crime, or Urban Paranoia? (CityLab)
The Tragedy of Baltimore (NYTimes)
CRIM-TECH
Will New NYPD Algorithm Software Track Crimes More Quickly? (TheCrimeReport.org)Leaders Weighs Pros and Cons of ShotSpotter in Durham, N.C. (GovTech.com)
Police Are Using "Reverse Search Warrants" To Get Your Location Data (Cheddar)
All NYPD patrol officers now wear body cameras (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Sunshine Week Puts Spotlight on Accessing Government Information (VoaNews)La Gordiloca: The Swearing Muckraker Upending Border Journalism (NYTimes)
The university that is helping to pioneer self driving cars is still putting their crime information on paper (CMU)
Interactive map: A week of crime in San Diego County (San Diego Union-Tribune)
City police to provide more — but not all — arrest data (The Daily Progress)
PRISON REFORM
States weigh bans on shackling jailed moms during childbirth (ABC News)Insanity defendants re-offend half as often as convicts after discharge, report says (KATU)
Maryland retail, restaurant industries join national push to hire former inmates (Baltimore Sun)
Can Prosecutors Help Break the Cycle of Recidivism? (TheCrimeReport.org)
Keeping the Lights On: Incarcerating the Bluegrass State (Vera.org)
DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK
What we know so far in the college admissions cheating scandal (CNN) |
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