SpotCrime Weekly Reads: police reform, crime data, court transparency
DHS commission looks at best law enforcement practices, CA law strips badges from bad officers, NYC union leader resigns, 'hunting' protestors in Minneapolis, domestic violence awareness, looking at recent FBI crime data, flawed gang database, geofence warrants, OH promises transparency in felony cases, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
Flagstaff City Council approves $2.5 million contract for mobile alternate response unit (AZ Daily Sun)
Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression (The Lancet) see also: More Than Half of Police Killings Are Mislabeled, New Study Says (New York Times)
CRIME RATE
What The Latest Crime Data Can — And Can’t — Tell Us (FiveThirtyEight.com) see also: Politics Podcast: How To Make Sense Of The Latest Crime Data (FiveThirtyEight.com)
Largest human trafficking sting in Ohio history nets 161, including politician, firefighter (The Columbus Dispatch)
CRIM-TECH
The City’s Investigation Into the Police Data Loss Is Damning (DMagazine.com)
Private Data/Public Regulation (LawFare)
Controversial gunshot sensors now in more Sacramento area spots. Here’s what we know (The Sacramento Bee)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters (The Guardian)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Ohio court data project promises to bring transparency, improve justice in felony cases (CantonRep.com)
Charleston County men find equality in court; arrests are a different matter, study finds (The Post and Courier)
Crime in New York City. See crime on your street at SpotCrime.com
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