SpotCrime Weekly Reads: mental health, qualified immunity, crime data
Developing programs for mental health calls, ending qualified immunity, cost of policing, trends to shift public safety in 2022, San Jose to require insurance and fee for gun owners, homeless camps crime, Tampa PD turns open data feed back on, Justice Department establishes initiative to strengthen crime data, expert witness reform, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
Police, Saskatoon Crisis Intervention Service partner to provide alternative for mental health calls (CKOM) see also: Mental Health Experts Will Respond To Some Emergency Calls Instead Of Police As Part Of New Far North Side Program (Block Club Chicago) and also: A 988 crisis line is coming. Mental health services ask: How do we stretch even more? (WHYY)
Six Trends That Will Shape Public Safety in 2022 (TheCrimeReport.org)
Indictment: Previous Greenup sheriff stole from department (The Daily Independent)
Sheriff Hutchinson was driving over 120 mph while drunk in Alexandria crash, patrol says (The Star Tribune)
University Of Chicago Police Officer Who Shot Man In Hyde Park Tuesday Also Shot Student In 2018 (Block Club Chicago)
Cops arrested him for filming a traffic stop, then the case went to court... (TheRealNews)
CRIME RATE
San Jose passes first U.S. law requiring gun owners to get liability insurance and pay annual fee (CBS News)
CRIM-TECH
Franklin County Sheriff's office among eight area agencies to get body-cam funds (The Columbus Dispatch)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Amid criticism, Tampa police quietly restores public neighborhood crime data (Creative Loafing Tampa Bay) see also: Scrubbing addresses from 911 logs hurts Tampa residents’ ability to gauge crime. Marsy’s Law is no excuse to keep important crime information from the public. | Column (Tampa Bay Times)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Tampa crime map. SpotCrime worked to convince Tampa PD to put their open data feed back online.
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