SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Violent crime, crime policy, prison
State takes control of St. Louis police department, tough on crime policies, officer recruitment, cuts to KC Sheriff, protecting survivors of domestic abuse, cracking down on violent crime, campus crime, cybercrime partnership, complaints against police, citizen review board transparency, bottlenecks in criminal court system, AZ prison closures, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
St. Louis Community Outraged as State Takes Control of Police Department (Vanguard News Group)
DOD stops offering rape kits to most overseas civilian workers (Military Times)
D.C. Public Safety Executive Order Revives Failed “Tough-on-Crime” Policies, Ignores Proven Solutions (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
Cuts to KC Sheriff’s Office will impact rural areas like the Valley (Snoqualmie Valley Record)
CRIME RATE
Report Calls for Creation of National Information Clearinghouse for Cybercrime Data; Urges FBI to Adopt New System for Categorizing Cybercrimes (National Academies)
How Police Guns End Up in the Hands of Criminals (Reveal News)
Crime is Plummeting in San Francisco. Policy Changes Have Played a Role, Some Experts Say. (California City News)
Pritzker, Johnson applaud Peacekeepers violence prevention program as crime drops in Chicago (The Triibe)
CRIM-TECH
University of Scranton, DA’s office in new cybercrime partnership (The Times-Tribune)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
'Code of Conduct' aims to build trust, transparency between sheriff's deputies and community members (Toledo Blade)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Former DA wants to uncover ‘bottlenecks’ in Criminal Court system (Daily Memphian)
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