SpotCrime Weekly Reads: neighborhood surveillance, DNA databases, community engaged greening

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DNA databases help solve crimes or invasion of privacy, the rise of the surveilled neighborhood with license plate readers, home security cameras, and smart streetlights, fighting violence with community engaged greening, Facebook and police facial recognition, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall Says Summer Crime Initiative Made ‘Significant Impact’ (CBS DFW)

DC expands gun testing to link and close shooting crimes (WTOP)

Police say complaints have dropped thanks to body cameras (mrt)

‘Critical’ shortage: More than 100 Seattle Police officers left the department last year (Q13Fox)

CRIME RATE

Uber allegedly discourages staff from disclosing crime reports to police (Engineering and Technology)

Busy Streets Theory: The Effects of Community-engaged Greening on Violence (Society for Community Research and Action) see also: Fighting gun violence in Chicago with trees, rakes and cleanup crews

Deportations don't reduce crime rates, study finds (Mic)

Study: Bigger cities boost ‘social crimes’ (Santa Fe Institute)

Nampa Police sees decrease in crime with launch of proactive policing tool (Idaho Press)

Cape Coral police report crime is down because neighbors are looking out for each other (News-Press)

CRIM-TECH

The Ringification of Suburban Life: Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they’re capturing moments we otherwise would never have known happened. (Wired) see also: The Rise of Networked Vigilante Surveillance:  What happens when the neighborhood watch gets automatic license plate readers? (Slate) and finally: The rise of anti-surveillance fashion (Thomson Reuters News Foundation)

New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases (Science Mag) see also: Do DNA Databases Make Would-Be Criminals Think Twice? and also: Nearly 2,000 untested rape kits connected to criminals in national DNA database

Data collection from fitness tech has crime-solving capabilities (Axios)

Facebook to train AI with police bodycam footage to combat extremism (New York Post) see also: Portland, Ore., Puts Crosshairs on Facial Recognition Tech (GovTech)

San Diego's smart streetlights misunderstood, officials say (StateScoop)

This U.S. lawmaker wants greater scrutiny of algorithms used in criminal trials (Science Mag)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Counting The Dead: How Statistics Can Find Unreported Killings (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)

Legal expert calls lack of data from public safety agencies in Baltimore, "crazy" (FoxBaltimore)

The Causes, Costs and Consequences of Bad Government Data (Governing)

Amazon's Ring wanted to use 911 calls to activate its video doorbells The company worked with police and cities to build in this real-time feature, emails showed. (Cnet)

PRISON REFORM

Review of shelter data finds high numbers of ex-convicts (The Ridgefield Press)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Florida man arrested, caught on video using samurai sword to fight over wheelbarrow (Fox News)

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