SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Gun violence, police transparency, camera footage

AI nonemergency call takers, White House report on improving trust and accountability in policing, doorbell footage compliance, gunfire leading cause of death for TN youth, growing up with gun violence, quitting crime, gunshot detection, cameras spark privacy debate, body cam video transparency, access to search warrants, incomplete crime data, economic benefits from criminal justice reforms, jail based mental health interventions, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Dallas Crime Data Still Dark as Year Nears Halfway Point (Dallas Express)

Are you required to comply when police request doorbell footage? 5 On Your Side investigates (WRAL)

A.I. Call Taker Will Begin Taking Over Police Nonemergency Phone Lines Next Week Artificial intelligence is “kind of a scary word for us,” admits the dispatch director. (Williamette Week)

White House report on improving trust and accountability in policing (SpotCrime Blog)

CRIME RATE

How to get people to quit crime (SlowBoring)

Study finds gunfire as leading cause of death for Tennessee youth (Chattanooga Times Free Press) see also: Growing Up With Gun Violence (KQED)

Director of Columbia's Office of Violent Crime Prevention is 'ready to hit the ground running' (WLTX) see also: Bloomington revisits gun violence commission idea (WGLT) and also: U.S. Attorney in Mass. launching Project Safe Neighborhoods to combat gun violence (Western Mass News)

Murders, on the Decline. The recent spike in murders already seems to be over. (NY Times)

Philly’s Violence Prevention Grant Program Brought Mixed Results. Now What? (The Trace)

A 3-hour phone call that brought her to tears: Imposter scams cost Americans billions (NPR)

CRIM-TECH

Gunshot detection tech: Does it enhance policing or is it just costly? (Longview News-Journal)

UK police blame Android SOS feature for influx of false emergency calls (The Verge)

Norfolk, Va.’s Flock Cameras Spark Privacy Debate (GovTech)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

New Ala. law on police body camera videos does not require public disclosure (Police1)

ProPublica Partner Sues Mississippi County for Blocking Access to Search Warrants (ProPublica)

DeSantis Claims Florida’s Crime is at a ‘Record Low.’ But He’s Using Incomplete Data (The Marshall Project)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Report: Mississippi’s economy could benefit from criminal justice reforms (Magnolia Tribune)

Two effective jail-based mental health interventions to reduce crime. AcuDetox and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing are showing value in one Colorado county (Corrections1)

Examining the effects of a transitional employment program for formerly incarcerated people on employment and recidivism: a randomized controlled trial during COVID-19 (Springer Link)

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