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Surveillance planes to combat crimes, facial recognition tech in schools, hot spot policing, mental illness and crime, AI, CA ends private prisons, and more... POLICE CONDUCT LAPD changing controversial program that uses data to predict where crimes will occur  (LA Times) Community Based Public Safety Solutions Are Working in South Los Angeles  (LA Sentinel) Fort Bend County Sheriff Nehls: Mental illness ‘biggest issue’ in Fort Bend County  (Houston Chronicle) STUDY: Where’s The Crime? Exploring Divergences Between Call Data and Perceptions of Local Crime and the microgeographic dynamics of this ‘hidden hot spot’  (Oxford Academic) Fort Collins Police Chief oped: Mindful approach to policing, community health helps increase safety  (Coloradoan) How Many Police Officers Should A City Have?  (WCCO) IRS Followed Bitcoin Transactions, Resulting In Takedown Of The Largest Child Exploitation Site On The Web  (Forbes) CRIME RATE Air Pollutio...

Boston's first black police commissioner, 'bad apples' not behind disproportionate killing of black men, 50 new gun control laws since Parkland, VA in state of emergency during Charlottesville anniversary, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Police officer jumps off overpass to save boy's life in daring New York rescue  (USAToday) If police officers need a second job, we've reached peak austerity  (Independent) William Gross Sworn In As Boston's First Black Police Commissioner, Stresses Community Policing And Diversity  (WBUR) Bad policing, bad law, not 'bad apples,' behind disproportionate killing of black men  (EurekaAlert) Chicago police solve one in every 20 shootings. Here are some reasons why that's so low  (Chicago Trubune) CRIME RATE Ray Lewis: Crime in Baltimore Decreased When I Played for Ravens  (Bleacher Report) Can you change how criminals think? Chicago hopes behavioral therapy can cut gun violence  (USA Today) After Parkland, ...

Worst State for officers to work, 'Big Brother in Coral Gables, predicting risk of opioid overdoses, China turns to robotic policing, drones fighting crimes, bitcoin price manipulation investigation, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Idaho ranked among worst places for police officers to work  (Idaho State Journal) Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US  (Motherboard) Supreme Court extends privacy protection to cars in a driveway  (LA Times) 'Big brother' in Coral Gables? Police capture data that says a lot about people's lives  (Miami Herald) How the municipal court money machine burdens city residents Lawsuits allege that small towns across the U.S. cracking down on “nuisance law” violations unfairly burden homeowners  (Curbed.com) CRIME RATE 2018 has already outpaced 2017 in K-12 school shooting deaths  (Vox) Why this Traverse City homeless shelter lets alcoholics drink  (Detroit Free Press) U.S. L...

Artificial intelligence finds its way into policing across the world, fact checking the gun debate and gun data, fighting blight may help curb violence, crime in Baltimore and Chicago is down, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Dallas police officers and top brass continue to leave department  (WFAA) Columbia’s approach to bias-free policing  (Columbia Daily Tribune) Here's how police in Europe work together against cryptocurrency crime  (Business Insider) Does Police Immunity for Wrongful Arrests Really Deter Crime?  (TheCrimeReport.org) CRIME RATE Homicides down 25 percent, shootings down 30 percent from violent 2016 and 2017  (Chicago Tribune) Baltimore had fewer homicides in February than any other month in years  (Baltimore Sun) Could a cease-fire curb gun violence in Kansas City?  (KansasCity.com) Restoring Vacant Lots Reduces Gun Violence and Crime, Increases Neighborhood Safety  (UPenn News) see also:  Can Fighti...

Criminals drop bitcoin, what we know about sexual assault victims, officer deaths drop, hate crimes are hard to find, making AI accountable, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Bodycam footage shows cookie-stealing squirrel lunging at police officer (ABC News) Number of officers killed hits 2nd-lowest in more than 50 years (USAToday) Prosecutors Benefiting Most From Police Body Cameras (TechDirt) CRIME RATE New Zealand Study Provides More Support for Lead-Crime Hypothesis (Mother Jones) Youth played tragic role in year's homicides (Toledo Blade) More trouble for the ‘Nigerian prince’: Louisiana police say they caught scam’s middle man. (Washington Post) The poorest Americans are 12 times as likely to be sexually assaulted as the wealthiest (Quartz) see also: What We Know About Victims Of Sexual Assault In America (FiveThirtyEight) What We Discovered During a Year of Documenting Hate (ProPublica) Open Data and Overdose Mapping Techniques (Ne...

Sheriff starts mining bitcoin, Trump FBI report missing ton of info, three percent of Americans have been to prison, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Preliminary 2017 Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities (National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund) Police Enhancing Accountability through Community Engagement (PEACE) Initiative (Vera.org) See also Bridging the Divide between Police and Community (Vera.org) Most California Jurisdictions Show Declines in Property Crime During Justice Reform Era (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice) The First FBI Crime Report Issued Under Trump Is Missing A Ton Of Info (FiveThirtyEight.com) CRIME RATE Three Percent of Americans Have Been To Prison- Eight Percent Have Felonies (CrimeInAmerica.net) White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US (The New Inquiry) Gun Laws Stop At State Lines, But Guns Don’t (FiveThirtyEight.com) Mayor: NYC bike path a...