SpotCrime Weekly Reads: FBI crime data not released, crime trends, police reform
Police reform, gaps in national crime data, FBI not releasing three months of crime data lacking law enforcement report sharing, new Florida elections police force, surveillance by game warden unconstitutional, progress addressing mental health calls, combating homelessness with crime data, place based policing, crime trends over the past two years, criminal justice in rural America, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
Anne Arundel County Council votes against investigative powers for Police Advisory Board (Capital Gazette)
DOJ Launches Voluntary Police Reform Program (TheCrimeReport.org)
School resource officer data shows more than 2,000 criminal charges laid over one decade: Researchers (The Edmonton Journal)
Most LAPD officers who violate policy in shootings avoid serious punishment, report shows (Los Angeles Daily News)
MD Bill Would Limit Police Interrogation of Youths without Adult Present (Public News Service)
In Victory for Property Owners Statewide, Tennessee Court Strikes Down Game Warden Surveillance Law as Unconstitutional (Institute for Justice)
NYPD Sued Over ‘Illegal and Unregulated DNA Database’ of 33,000 Profiles (TheCrimeReport.org)
CRIME RATE
Two Years of Wide Variation in Crime Trends (Public Policy Institute of California)
Curbing Violent Crime Through Place-based Policing (Route Fifty)
Public Safety Committee Chair is Encouraged With the Progress Made by the City’s Pilot Program to Address Mental Health Calls (City of San Antonio)
CRIM-TECH
RI state troopers to get $3,000 stipends for use of body cameras (The Providence Journal)
Justice Department Admits: We Don't Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We've Funded (Gizmodo)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
The Alarming Gaps in National Crime Data (The Trace) see also: FBI not releasing 3 months of crime data, cites lack of law enforcement report sharing (KY3)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
The Crisis in Access to Justice in Rural America (Legal Talk Network)
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