SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Police structure and funding, hate crimes, transparency
Underfunding the police, smart policing grant program, pushing cities out of law enforcement, police misconduct consequences, broken windows theory, hate crimes jumped in 2021, collaboration in the justice system, body cams, AI may flag parents with disabilities, police transparency, mass incarceration, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
We’re Underfunding the Police (The Atlantic)
Aggressive Policing in Memphis Goes Far Beyond the Scorpion Unit (The Marshall Project)
These officers committed misconduct. But what were the consequences? (inewsource.org)
CRIME RATE
Crime isn't really increasing, but collaboration in justice system is (Sioux Falls Simplified)
CRIM-TECH
Beyond the body-worn camera: Incorporating digital evidence management systems into the corrections environment (Corrections1.com)
POLICE TRANSAPRENCY
‘Push the envelope’: Unit at center of police-transparency case has history of illegal stops and searches (Concord Monitor)
Organizations raise concern with city transparency, police misconduct (Columbian Missourian)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Understanding mass incarceration in the US is the first step to reducing a swollen prison population (The Conversation)
Arrest, Release, Repeat: How police and jails are misused to respond to social problems (PrisonPolicy.org)
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