SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Spy plane, mass shooting database, gun laws
Baltimore spy plane settlement, San Francisco rape kit DNA used to arrest rape victims, NIJ mass shooting database, Philadelphia's lost gun reporting law, gun shot detection technology, police access to facial recognition, innovation and access to justice, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
San Francisco Cops Used DNA From Rape Victim to Arrest Her Over Property Crime: Report(Gizmodo) see also: Use of Rape-Kit DNA to Probe Other Crimes Shocks Prosecutors (USNews)
Florida police officer arrested on excessive force charges (Tampa Bay Times)
Police in Ohio can seize property without criminal convictions (Dayton Daily News)
Hands Up at Home: Militarized Masculinity and Police Officers Who Commit Intimate Partner Abuse (Academia.edu)
CRIME RATE
Public Mass Shootings: Database Amasses Details of a Half Century of U.S. Mass Shootings with Firearms, Generating Psychosocial Histories A troubled past and leaked plans are common to those who take part in mass shootings. Most use handguns, NIJ-supported research shows. (National Institute of Justice)
Concerns about Crime Are Up, Ratings of Police Have Declined (Public Policy Institute of California)
How violent crime has gone up since the pandemic (The Hill) and also: Remote work may end soon. But will crime still keep tech employees out of downtown Seattle? (Geekwire)
Cure Violence data suggests reduction in crime in focus areas of Jacksonville (News4Jax) see also: Fort Worth police chief hopes to follow Dallas PD's lead with plan to curb violent crime (Fox 4 KDFW) and also: Bell County hoping to add more mentoring and youth services to help reduce crime (KXXV)
Court rules against Philadelphia lost gun reporting law (WHYY) see also: Salt Lake County police data shows more guns reported stolen, most not recovered (KSLTV)
Drug Arrests Stayed High Even as Imprisonment Fell From 2009 to 2019 (Pew Charitable Trusts)
CRIM-TECH
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
A randomized experimental study of sharing crime data with citizens: Do maps produce more fear? (Academia.edu)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
The Rise and Fall of a Prison Town Queen. A family feud over drugs, money and fried fish roils the heart of the Texas prison system. (The Marshall Project)
St. Louis Circuit Court publishes pretrial detention data (St Louis Post Dispatch)
New Tech Trade Association Supports Innovation in Access to Justice (Legal Talk Network)
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