SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Police conduct, surveillance, AI

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Police staffing, five years after George Floyd, recording police, ICE, misconduct records, NIBRS switch slows access to crime data, social media and crime trends, solving hit and runs, child deepfake and sextortion incidents, AI crime, gunshot detection, surveillance camera network, automated license plate readers, predictive policing, tech and police transparency, body cams, New Jersey expungement, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

New Jersey police chief accused of defecating on floor to harass co-workers (The Guardian)

Staffing and Data Needs Hold Center Stage at Second Shasta County Public Safety Meeting (Shasta Scout)

The State of Policing, Five Years After George Floyd (GovTech)

Beaumont police chief highlights community safety efforts and crime prevention (12 News Now)

“A Wholly Inaccurate Picture”: Reality Cop Show “The First 48” and the Wrongly Convicted Man (ProPublica)

Tia Lewis: Right To Record Cops Is Vital Because No One Is Above The Law (Honolulu Civil Beat)

Police say ICE tactics are eroding public trust in local law enforcement (NPR)

Exposing the past: Why we're writing about NY police misconduct records | Column (Democrat & Chronicle)

CRIME RATE

Is the Shift to NIBRS Slowing Down Public Access to Crime Data? (SpotCrime Blog)

‘We’re going backward’: Rochester police link social media to violent crime trends (RochesterFirst.com)

Driven to Justice: How the Crime Analysis and Intelligence Division Solves Hit-and-Runs (KPRC)

Minneapolis violence interrupters say new city rules will reduce their staffing and pay (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

Digital Exploitation: Mapping the Scope of Child Deepfake Incidents in the US (TechPolicy.Press) see also: Wisconsin DOJ provides resources for teens, parents amid rise in sextortion cases (Tomahawk Leader)

CRIM-TECH

AI crime is rising, so police need to fight fire with fire says Turing Institute (The Stack)

Little Rock critics call gunshot detector ineffective, intrusive ahead of key vote (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette)

Police in Traverse City, Mich., Using New Tech on Job (GovTech)

Albuquerque police are partnering with Sandia National Labs to enhance city safety through a new surveillance camera network (KOAT)

I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned. (Cardinal News)

Algorithmic Policing: When Predicting Means Presuming Guilty (Algorithm Watch)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Building Trust: How Technology Can Help Police with Transparency (Officer.com)

'The transparency of it': Local police chief pushes to equip all officers with body cams (Local12)

Transparency Crisis: How Police Commissioner continually undermines Freedom of Information Act (NeilWilby.com)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Governor Murphy Signs Bill to Make Expungement Process in New Jersey More Accessible and Transparent (NJ.gov)

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