SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Crime rate, public safety and privacy, transparency

By

Police response times, independent monitor for police reform, police job demand stress, dip in violent crime, real time crime centers, balancing public safety and privacy, robotic technology in law enforcement, drone tech to respond to emergencies, AI tool and transparency, bodycam footage transparency, voting from prison, DNA and wrongful convictions, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Police Response Times May Be Improving (Jeff-alytics)

One police officer fired, six more leave to avoid discipline, Fresno report says (The Fresno Bee)

Louisville seeks independent monitor for police reform implementation (WHAS)

Will I Stay or Will I Go? Exploring Job Demand Stress, Organizational Justice, and Psychological Health in Decisions to Leave the Police Agency or Profession (Springer Link)

Three current and former Louisiana police chiefs are federally charged in alleged visa fraud scheme (NBC)

CRIME RATE

City officials attribute new programs for dip in violent crime (Fox19)

Crime has dropped significantly in Connecticut’s largest city (Fox61)

New Orleans homicide rates at an all time low in first six months of the year (WGNO)

CounterCrime - Using counterfactual explanations to explore crime reduction scenarios (PubMed)

State data at heart of Albany crime debate show Raise the Age funding has been underutilized (WAMC)

CRIM-TECH

Pueblo Police Department introducing new technology, drones to Real Time Crime Center (KKTV)

In a technology race against crime, it’s the scammers who are streaking ahead (The Observer)

Balancing Public Safety and Privacy: A Media Analysis of Robotic Technology in Law Enforcement (TandFOnline) see also: Seattle Police Department unveils high-tech crime center, raising privacy concerns (MyNorthWest.com)

Utah Uses AI to Handle Non-Emergency Calls to 911 Centers (GovTech)

Minnesota police departments launching new drone technology to respond to emergencies (KSTP)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency (EFF.org) see also: AI tool that writes police reports needs better oversight, transparency, report says (StateScoop) and also: Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used (ArsTechinca)

New Orleans Police Dashboard Aims for Transparency, Some Say It Could Hurt the Very Officers It Tracks (WDSU)

Alabama police know they don’t have to show bodycam videos to families: ‘Why hide it?’ (AL.com)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Voting From Prison: Lessons From Maine and Vermont (The Sentencing Project)

Brian Boles and Charles Collins Are Exonerated in New York After Decades of Wrongful Conviction New DNA testing undermines the coerced confession made by Mr. Boles when he was only 17. (Innocence Project)

View crime on your street at SpotCrime.com


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Police conduct, gun violence, AI in policing

By
Image
Police stops of civilians, police oversight commissions, police advisory boards, decrease in gun violence, homicide numbers, temperature and crime, juvenile crime debates, facial recognition, generative AI to draft police reports, how frequently people are booked into jail and why, recidivism, and more... POLICE CONDUCT NYC lawmakers to grill NYPD leaders on police stops of civilians  (Gothamist) US jury finds Vegas police fabricated evidence in 2001 killing, awards $34 million to exonerated woman  (CNN) Police Oversight Commission Expands Data Collection and Oversight Initiatives  (Pasadena Now) Joliet City Officials and Police Department Respond to Report by Illinois Attorney General’s Office  (WJOL) Cops are calling in sick to clock overtime on side gigs, audit finds  (The San Francisco Standard) Lawsuit accuses Oak Point police chief of covering up officer’s alleged crime  (Denton Record Chronicle) Mountain View dissolves short-lived police advisory boa...
Read more

SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Community review boards, police staffing, gun violence

By
Image
Community review boards, police staffing, preventing crime, shoplifting, gun violence, domestic abuse, sexual assault investigations, crime rates, AI in criminal justice, license plate readers, FOIA, police transparency, death in custody data, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Community Review Board Approves Long-Sought Agreement With Nashville Police  (Nashville Banner) see also:  New Austin police oversight group selected at random through lottery  (KVUE) and also:  Detroit police oversight board launches dashboard tracking complaints against officers  (Detroit Free Press) Law Enforcement Suicides Online platform provides current data on suicides, aims to reduce stigma  (FBI) Technology Helps Fill Gaps Amid Public Safety Staffing Shortages  (GovTech) see also:  Pryor Creek Police Chief discusses how department is managing while down 5 patrol officers  (Fox 23) City of Memphis allocates $1 million into community-based organizations to help prevent ...
Read more

SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Transparency, tech, prisons

By
Image
Call center flooded with calls, civilian review boards, police workforce and crime problems, juvenile crime, gun violence data tracker, criminalizing homelessness, domestic violence, shrink reports, victim accounts of non-reporting, tech facilitated abuse, police transparency, police tech race, surveillance cameras, Florida prisons during Hurricane Milton, rising heat and health risks in prison, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Safety expert: Montgomery Co. 911 call center ‘chronically understaffed’ and flooded with calls  (WTOP) Phoenix appoints 9 members to civilian review board to oversee police misconduct investigations  (KTAR) Size isn't everything: Understanding the relationship between police workforce and crime problems  (CRIMRXIV) Inside the Federal Protective Service, Homeland Security’s Domestic Police Force  (Brennan Center for Justice) North Carolina Police Take New Approach to Juvenile Crime  (GovTech) CRIME RATE How 'Human Error' Likely Increased the Re...
Read more