SpotCrime Weekly Reads: retail theft, DNA, measuring anti-crime efforts

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Massachusetts releases officer disciplinary records, relationship between food insecurity and family violence, retail theft concerns and cracking down, measuring anti crime efforts, cost of body cams, DNA processing, criminal justice data tools, holistic alternatives to criminal justice, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT



Embodying Evidence to Action: Tracking the Impact of Three Key NIJ Research Investments (NIJ)

CRIME RATE



CRIM-TECH



POLICE TRANSPARENCY


THE PRISON SYSTEM


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