SpotCrime Weekly Reads: police data, violent crime increases, body cams

Facebook uses police bodycam footage to train AI, violent crime increases in the US, bigger cities mean more social crimes, fitness tech data collection has crime solving capabilities, coloring books banned in prison, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Cops snatch man out of the air as he jumps from bridge, Tennessee video shows (The News Tribune)

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

Data analysis helps sheriff fight crime (The Daily Sentinel)

A police dog in Florida can sniff out child porn. He’s looking for a chemical scent (Miami Herald)

CRIME RATE

Serious Violent Crime Increases-Crime Reported To Police Decrease (CrimeInAmerica.net)

Study: Bigger cities boost ‘social crimes’ (Newswise)

Do Cash Rewards For Crime Tips Work? (OPB)

How Adverse Childhood Experiences Cost $1.33 Trillion a Year Research takes a deep dive into large-scale impact of harm to children (Psychology today)

St Louis County Executive Page forming St. Louis County ‘crime commission’ after violent summer (St Louis Post Dispatch)

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

CRIM-TECH

Facebook to train AI with police bodycam footage to combat extremism (NY Post)

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

Predictive policing poses discrimination risk think tank warns, but AI shouldn’t be dismissed (Verdict)

Police: DNA links Florida man to ‘serial’ slayings of women
 (ABC27)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Editorial: More eyes watching us? We need to talk first (Chicago Sun Times)

PRISON REFORM

Coloring books, Klingon dictionaries and other books banned by state prisons (Washington Post Magazine)

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

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

A Florida couple had sex in the back of a police car after DUI arrests (USA Today)

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