SpotCrime Weekly Reads: police shootings, police shortage, AI

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Police shortage, bail reform increased crime in NYC?, artificial intelligence and facial recognition in policing, crime data transparency, police shootings in Colorado, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Town wanted to hire 12 cops but couldn’t. It’s doing something creative instead. (NJ.com)

Detroit Chief Wishes For 1,000 More Cops And A Lot More Money (Deadline Detroit)

We tracked every police shooting in Colorado last year. Here’s what we learned. Police shootings are more frequent here than in other states with similar population sizes (The Denver Post)

13 Dallas officers disciplined for Islamophobic and other offensive social media posts (The Washington Times)

LAPD scandal opens window into California's secret gang database as reforms debated (MSN)

30 state troopers fired in training cheating scandal (AJC)

CRIME RATE

Rocks and Riches: How Crack Cocaine Affected America (TheCrimeReport)

Bail Reform, Mayor Blamed For January Crime Surge In NYC (Patch)

How drug deals in Indianapolis go down in plain sight 'all over the city' (IndyStar)

Maryland Crime Front-And-Center At Hogan’s 6th State Of The State Speech (WAMU)

How blight leads to violence, crime in Macon-Bibb County (WGXA)

Real World Economics: Murder statistics are enlightening, but solutions are difficult (Pioneer Press TwinCities.com)

CRIM TECH

Facial recognition can’t tell black and brown people apart – but the police are using it anyway (gal--dem)

Artificial intelligence requires trusted data, and a healthy DataOps ecosystem (ZDNet)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Publicly available data on inspections, crime stats help lead to better NYC apartment-price predictions, researchers find (MarketWatch)

Rantz: As violent Seattle crime ticks up, city doesn’t update data (MyNorthwest.com)

PRISON REFORM

Cuomo calls for prison closures, cites decline in N.Y. inmates (The Daily Star)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

Florida troopers find narcotics in bag labeled ‘Bag Full of Drugs’ (WFLA)

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