SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Mass shootings, FBI data, justice tech
2022 deadliest year for mass shootings, police obtain location data without warrant, agencies fail to report FBI data, crime and American opinion, justice tech procurement, campus crimes, bail in Ohio, criminal codes changed in DC, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
Denver city leaders launch “downtown action team” to address crime, drugs, homelessness (Denver Post)
Florida Law Enforcement Fails to Participate in FBI Annual Crime Report (Miami New Times) see also: Less than 25% of New York police submitted data to the FBI 2021 crime statistics (WSHU)
Police Quietly Obtain Private Location Data with a Checkbook and not a Warrant (POGO.org)
CRIME RATE
In wake of Colorado Springs massacre, 2022 is deadliest year for mass shootings, Northeastern expert says (Northeastern.edu)
Crime, American Public Opinion and the Election (Gallup News)
'False narratives': How a new study of Milwaukee and other cities punctures the myth of housing vouchers correlating with crime (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
DPIC Analysis: Pandemic Murder Rates Highest in Death Penalty States (Death Penalty Information Center)
More than 70% of All Guns Reported Stolen Taken from Vehicles (Nashville.gov)
CRIM-TECH
A Human Rights Approach to Justice Technology Procurement (Georgetown University Law Center)
As anxiety about crime peaks, US cities look to surveillance tech. But does it actually work? (codystory.com)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Philly colleges don’t have to report all crimes that happen near campus. Should that law change? (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Transparency at HPD questioned after rising violent crime stats kept out of Waikiki safety summit talk (Hawaii News Now)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
D.C. Council passes new criminal code, despite some objections (The Washington Post)
View crime on your street at SpotCrime.com
Comments