SpotCrime Weekly Reads: crime prevention, traffic stops, human trafficking
Communities highlight need for crime prevention, USCs troubling delay in reporting crime, police traffic stops, inside gun detection software, Tesla police cars tested in Spokane, using tech to stop human trafficking, a billionaire's son border war, prison staff shortages among COVID, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
Dayton to use mediation response for some nonviolent 911 calls (Dayton Daily News)
What do the Rural Folks Think? Perceptions of Police Performance (Oxford Academic)
Central Pa. police officers fired for turning in fake COVID-19 vaccination cards: report (PennLive.com)
Howard Buffett's Border War: A Billionaire's Son Is Spending Millions in Cochise County (Phoenix New Times)
CRIME RATE
Chicago shootings up from October last year; murders down, CPD says (ABC7Chicago) see also: Indianapolis Already Close to Matching 2020 Homicide Record (USNews)
PA bill seeks accurate data on gun violence through nonpartisan research (PAHouse.com) see also: New Jersey, Pennsylvania collaborate in ghost gun case (WITF.org)
CRIM-TECH
Can Technology Stop Human Trafficking? (TheCrimeReport.org)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
The Undue Influence of Police Technology Companies on Open Crime Data (The SpotCrime Blog)
Prince George’s County Police Resist Release of Misconduct Records, Despite Law Change (MarylandMatters.org)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Pathways to Success on Probation (CUNY Institute for state of local governance)
Crime in Milwaukee, WI. See crime in your city at SpotCrime.com
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