SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Red flag laws, police staffing, surveillance
Emergency call times, police staffing shortage, red flag laws, illegal guns, San Fran robots that can kill, biometric surveillance, corporate crime data, body cams, NY prison racial disparity, college in prison, and more... POLICE CONDUCT CMPD shares more insight about long emergency call times (WCNC) Are Police Helicopter Fleets Worth the Money? (Mother Jones) Janet Lauritsen issues call to modernize nation’s crime statistics during presidential address at American Society of Criminology conference (UMSL.edu) Police forces scramble to fill vacancies as crime rises CRIME RATE 19 states have red flag laws, but they are rarely used to stop gun violence (Poynter) Why crime data may not present an accurate picture (KSMU) Where are the criminals in Rochester getting their illegal guns? (WHEC) CRIM-TECH San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill (AP News) A conversation on AI-powered gunshot detection with a police technology expert ...