SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Police transparency, AI, regional dashboard

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Police collaboration, smart cities and safe streets, property crime rates, gun dealers source of trafficked firearms, regional crime data, AI transforming crime, positivity bias in crime perceptions, deepfakes, robot dogs, police use of surveillance tech transparency, use of force dashboard, body cam transparency, locking up kids, jail deaths, and more...

POLICE CONDUCT

CPD, Sheriff's Office and OSHP share how cooperation effort is going (WVXU)

Suquamish police chief working to prioritize transparency, collaboration (Kitsap Sun)

CRIME RATE 

How have property crime rates changed over time? (USA Facts)

Exploring the Local Positivity Bias in Crime Perceptions (Gallup)

Smart Cities and Safe Streets – The Power of Environmental Criminology and Data Analytics (Trends Research and Advisory)

Gun dealers are major source of trafficked firearms (Stateline)

Are Your Criminal Justice Laws Working? Here’s How to Tell. (National Conference of State Legislatures)

CRIM-TECH

Making regional crime data work: Inside the DC regions’ groundbreaking dashboard (Police1)

After Outcry, Bay City, Mich., Rejects License Plate Readers (GovTech)

Deepfakes, government hacks, cloned voices: Ohio's new AI crime wave (Axios)

Police 'Robot Dogs’ Raise Concerns as More Departments Adopt Them (Governing)

AI is transforming crime, too (NPR)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Little Rock board votes against public transparency on police use of surveillance tech (Arkansas Times)

A Message on Transparency, Safety, and Our Commitment to Boulder (BoulderColorado.gov)

IMPD, community leaders launch crime and use-of-force data dashboard aimed at improving transparency (WTHR)

Fort Worth police launch new unit to improve transparency and accountability (Fort Worth Star Telegram)

Rochester police body-cams gain transparency with new community dashboard (Rochester First)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Locking up kids won’t stop crime, or incarceration’s vicious cycle (Seattle Times)

Another death at Cook County Jail raises questions amid ongoing transparency fight (Chicago Crusader)

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