SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Gun violence, robot dogs, transparency

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Kansas police gun sales, public libraries crime mitigation, violence alters human genomes, gun violence and gun data, red flag laws, police robot dogs, automated report writing, license plate cameras, body cam market shift, police misconduct files transparency, prison, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Kansas police could sell, give away guns seized without criminal convictions under Senate bill (Kansas Reflector)

Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig explores running for Detroit mayor (The Detroit News)

CRIME RATE

Do public libraries help mitigate crime? Evidence from Kansas City, MO (Ideas.repec.org)

Violence alters human genomes for generations, researchers discover (University of Florida)

Georgia Crime Victims Oppose Governor’s Bill to Limit Lawsuit Damages (Governing)

Can Enhanced Street Lighting Improve Public Safety at Scale? (SSRN)

State, county officials meet to discuss gun violence and ways to make communities safer (WFMZ)

What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. (Pew Research)

DeSantis wants to repeal the red flag law. What is it? (Tampa Bay Times)

Can Crime Mapping Technology Make Cities Safer? (SamWilks.com)

CRIM-TECH

Honolulu Police Spent $150k On A Robot Dog. It’s Playing Dead (Honolulu Civil Beat) see also: The Rising Call for Regulating Police Robots (Governing)

Amarillo Police Department opens new regional crime center (Amarillo Globe News)

Automated report writing: Benefits and risks for police (Police1)

License Plate Cameras Would Bring Network Access for N.C. PD (GovTech)

Will the 200 cameras now operating and recording on East Bay freeways help reduce crime? (ABC7)

Axon Faces New Competition as Law Enforcement Tech Market Shifts (nasdaq.com)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

LAPD’s Open Crime Data Crisis: A Step Backward for Transparency (SpotCrime Blog)

Austin opened up police misconduct files. Now, state lawmakers want to lock them back up. (Austin Monitor)

Democracy for Sale journalists targeted by secretive police unit (Democracy for Sale)

THE PRISON SYSTEM 

America’s Human Rights Crisis: Prison Slavery (Counter Punch)

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