SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Crime trends, AI and crime
FBI axes partnership with SPLC, FOP pressures police chief, DC crime trends, political violence, criminal charges in child abuse cases, unusual approach to gun regulation, the evolving business of crime, juvenile homicides, license plate readers, AI and the business of crime, ICE raids, prison land sale transparency, and more...
POLICE CONDUCT
FBI axes partnership with civil rights watchdog SPLC (Axios)
Long-time Dallas Senior Corporal Officer arrested for third-degree felony theft (Fox4News)
Dover police chief under pressure from Fraternal Order of Police, community (Delaware Online)
CRIME RATE
Re-Evaluating Washington DC's Crime Trends (Jeff-alytics)
Crime Data Expert Reveals To Judiciary Committee Why The U.S. Is Seeing Record-Low Crime Rates (Forbes YouTube)
What We Know About Political Violence in America (FactCheck.org)
Criminal charges not filed in 38% of child abuse and neglect deaths, new DCS data reveals (WRTV)
Illinois Considers Unusual Approach to Gun Regulations (Governing)
Vice Series: The evolving business of crime (NPR)
Charlotte police’s crime data shows more juvenile homicide victims in 2025 (WBTV)
CRIM-TECH
What we know about Flock license-plate reader cameras in Eugene (Lookout Eugene-Springfield)
Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) (NPR)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Can You Legally Share ICE Raids on Apps Like Ring Neighbors or Nextdoor? (CNET)
THIS PRISON SYSTEM
Bipartisan group of state lawmakers calls for transparency in prison land sale (The Express)
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