SpotCrime Weekly Reads: body cams, mental health, predictive policing software
Body cam implementation and video release times move toward faster transparency, studying the mental health of police officers and first responders, effects of a smaller police budget, police misconduct multi-city comparison, gun safety, pandemic crime, police partnerships with predictive policing companies, crime prediction software, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
Jersey City’s Quality of Life Task Force Introduces New Office, Promotes Resident Response Center in 2021 (TAPinto.net)
Proposed Virginia bill would require police to release body cam footage within 15 days (WRIC) see also: Bill would require every Illinois cop to wear body cameras by 2025 — but will departments comply? (Journal Star)
Stress response of police officers during COVID‐19: A moderated mediation model (Wiley Online Library) see also: Occupational Stress and Anger: Mediating Effects of Resiliency in First Responders (Springer Link)
Rochester Police reform plan comes amid months of scrutiny (WHAM) see also: RPD body-cam video of 9-year-old girl getting handcuffed, pepper sprayed released (Democrat and Chronicle)
CRIME RATE
Pandemic, Social Unrest, and Crime in U.S. Cities: 2020 Year-End Update (CCJ National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice)
Oregon law to decriminalize all drugs goes into effect, offering addicts rehab instead of prison (USA Today)
CRIM-TECH
Local Law Enforcement Quiet on Relationships With ‘Predictive Policing’ Company (Voice of San Diego) see also: Worcester Crime Prediction Tool Topic Of Council Hearing (Patch) and also: South Bend police considering new crime analysis software (South Bend Tribune)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
New Virginia Beach crime data system will get information out quicker and identify trends sooner (The Virginia Pilot)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Confronted with significant flaws in coronavirus data, Pa. corrections officials concede ‘it’s unacceptable’ (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK
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