Weekly Reads: Police partnerships, license plate readers, prison

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Police staffing shortages, police partnerships, body cams, police records database, officer involved shootings, lowering the crime rate, sexual extortion, license plate readers, deepfake abuse, radio encryption, public affairs websites, crime data, police podcast, prison education outcomes, death in prison, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

Police Departments Lower Education Standards Due to Staff Shortages (Governing)

Gov. Moore restores state partnership with Baltimore Police Department (CBS News)

New database makes once-secret police records accessible to the public (Stanford Report)

New Partnerships in Cincinnati Focus on Public Safety, Criminal Justice (Ohio.gov)

Transparency, more police resources outlined in city leaders' new 'Safer Louisville' plan (WDRB)

Arvin launches search for new police chief, aims for transparency (Bakersfield Now)

LAPD officer-involved shootings up nearly 50% (ABC7)

CRIME RATE

How Seattle-area transit is pushing back against crime (Seattle Times)

Are your kids in danger? New data shows reports of sexual extortion rapidly increasing in Wisconsin (WMTV)

Sexualized Deepfake Abuse: Perpetrator and Victim Perspectives on the Motivations and Forms of Non-Consensually Created and Shared Sexualized Deepfake Imagery (Sage Journals)

CRIM-TECH

Flock Cameras: Crime Solvers or Privacy Invaders? (Newport This Week)

RPD offers transparency on use of license plate-reading cameras (WDBJ)

Atlanta police are better at using body cameras — but not always (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Police ‘Secrecy Grab’ Dies After Senate Refuses Uvalde Compromise (Texas Observer)

Oakland: Police Departments Plan To Silence Radio Traffic Raises Concerns Over Transparency (SF Gate)

Honolulu Police Department creates user-friendly public affairs webpage (Hawaii News Now)

Matthews Police Department launches podcast in effort to be more transparent (WBTV)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Alabama community colleges to study ways of improving prison education outcomes (Alabama Reflector)

‘Catastrophic Failures’: Why Dozens of Killings In Mississippi Prisons Go Unanswered (The Marshall Project)

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