SpotCrime Weekly Reads: mental health, camera surveillance, use of force

By

Mental health response teams making difference, camera surveillance and license plate readers, reviewing use of force, white supremacists as the 'most persistent and lethal threat' to the US, the public growing more tolerant toward politically motivated violence, data collection needed for community safety discussion, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Cleveland City Council accepts anti-crime grant, but first debates whether hiring more officers is best move (Cleveland.com)

Federal Judge Temporarily Prohibits Detroit Police From Using Batons, Gas And Rubber Bullets On Peaceful Protesters Chief Craig: “We don't want to use force on peaceful protesters" (WWJ News Radio)

Chief: 19 Asheville police officers have retired or resigned since June 1 (WLOS)

Police shoot unarmed 13-year-old boy with autism several times after mother calls for help (The Guardian)

Mental health crisis intervention program saving lives, funds for Oregon city (KSAT) see also: Community Response Team making a difference in mental health calls in Abilene, elsewhere (ReporterNews.com)

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd has encouraged residents to stand ground and shoot in the past. In recent shooting, Sheriff Judd rules that man wasn’t ‘standing his ground’ when he shot, killed ‘bizarre’ teen at apartment complex (Fox13)

CRIME RATE

DHS to label white supremacists as the 'most persistent and lethal threat' to the US: report (The Hill)

Violence Will Likely Escalate Ahead of the Election. The public appears to be growing more tolerant of political violence, at least when perpetrated by partisans on their side. (Governing)

Atlanta Interim police chief Rodney Bryant talks crime (CBS46)

Charlotte leaders discuss potential violence interruption program, again The potential solution was put on the back burner as the city responded to COVID-19 but after a rising homicide count in 2020, leaders seem ready to act. (WCNC)

Lessons from Chicago’s Recent Increase in Violent Crime (InPublicSafety.com)

CRIM-TECH

Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to Policing (EFF.org)

Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene Police increasingly ask Google and other tech firms for data about who was where, when. Two judges ruled the investigative tool invalid in a Chicago case. (WIRED)

The controversial company using DNA to sketch the faces of criminals Parabon Nanolabs shot to fame using DNA and genealogy analysis to solve cold cases. Then it had to change tack. (Nature.com)

DeKalb County to get additional license plate cameras (11Alive) see also: Birmingham invests in more surveillance cameras (ABC 33 40) and also: Local Police Encouraging Surveillance Camera Registry System (The Intelligencer) and finally: FBI Horrified To Discover Ring Doorbells Can Tip Off Citizens To The Presence Of Federal Officers At Their Door (TechDirt)

L.A. is partnering with everyone’s favorite crime app obsession for Covid-19 contact tracing The county will use Citizen’s SafePass feature to bolster its contact tracing program. (Timeout.com)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

A randomized experimental study of sharing crime data with citizens: Do maps produce more fear? Overall, residents who viewed either type of map reported less fear than those who viewed tabular statistics. The maps did not stigmatize high crime areas. (Academia.edu)

Collection of crime data is inadequate and must be improved (Democrat and Chronicle)

More data needed for community safety conversation  (Timmins Today)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

'Or I Will Stab You Right Now': A Family's Prison Extortion Nightmare (Yahoo News)

Virginians could have some criminal records expunged under pending legislation (Fredericksburg.com)

How to Construct an Underclass, or How the Waron Drugs Became a War on Education (NELLCO)

DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

STOP STEALING CAMPAIGN SIGNS: Biden Supporters Say Campaign Signs Stolen From Yards, Trump Supporters Say They're Seeing It Too (Erie News Now)


See crime in your neighborhood at SpotCrime.com



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Transparency, gun violence, crime data

By
Image
New police chief promises trust and transparency, better crime data means better crime policy, racial profiling, Boeing criminal charges, family violence, gun violence public health crisis, active shooters targeting public spiked, Biden gun safety law, gun violence, automated license plate readers, gunshot detection software, body cam transparency, California in contempt over prison mental health staffing, and more... POLICE CONDUCT 'Trust, confidence, transparency' — Chatham-Kent gets new police chief  (Windsor Star) This police department's autism unit is saving lives  (Red River Radio) see also:  Alternative 911 Responses Can Build Trust and Improve Outcomes  (Governing) Better Crime Data, Better Crime Policy  (Council on Criminal Justice) Pinellas officers track where people sleep outside ahead of DeSantis law  (Tampa Bay Times) Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project releases annual report on traffic stops  (Fox61) Boeing should face crim...
Read more

SpotCrime Weekly Reads: AI, police conduct, transparency

By protector
Image
Police conduct, retired officers back to work, misconduct files released, lack of data stalling cases, association between food insecurity and intimate partner violence, crime victim federal aid drops, crimes against USPS workers, AI in policing, police tech and AI ease workforce woes, WisDOJ sued over police transparency, states that publish current crime data, independent oversight for federal prison system, and more... POLICE CONDUCT N.M. Police Department to Bring Retired Officers Back to Work  (Officer.com) New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances  (KGET) Chicago police misconduct files will soon be made public. ‘This is a huge step forward for transparency’  (Chicago Sun Times) A cop gave Fresno man a jaywalking ticket. Then came ‘campaign of hate and revenge’  (Fresno Bee) George Floyd’s murder led to a national reckoning on policing, but efforts have stalled or reversed  (NBC News) L.A.’s dirtiest cop: A mild-mann...
Read more

SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Police conduct, gun violence, AI in policing

By
Image
Police stops of civilians, police oversight commissions, police advisory boards, decrease in gun violence, homicide numbers, temperature and crime, juvenile crime debates, facial recognition, generative AI to draft police reports, how frequently people are booked into jail and why, recidivism, and more... POLICE CONDUCT NYC lawmakers to grill NYPD leaders on police stops of civilians  (Gothamist) US jury finds Vegas police fabricated evidence in 2001 killing, awards $34 million to exonerated woman  (CNN) Police Oversight Commission Expands Data Collection and Oversight Initiatives  (Pasadena Now) Joliet City Officials and Police Department Respond to Report by Illinois Attorney General’s Office  (WJOL) Cops are calling in sick to clock overtime on side gigs, audit finds  (The San Francisco Standard) Lawsuit accuses Oak Point police chief of covering up officer’s alleged crime  (Denton Record Chronicle) Mountain View dissolves short-lived police advisory boa...
Read more