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Jeff Sessions gets it wrong (again), body cams and transparency, murder is up again, opioid laws getting signed nationwide, looking at time served and prison populations, and more... POLICE CONDUCT How two ICE programs let sheriffs cash in on immigration crackdown (Austin-American Statesman) Building Trust in Police: What Really Works? (TheCrimeReport.org) Indianapolis Police to Change Policies After Fatal Shooting (USNews) 2017 Preliminary Mid-Year Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities Report (NLEOMF.org) What Cops Know: You can learn a lot about a city by seeing it through the eyes of police officers who patrol it (Chicagomag.com) Latest: Minneapolis police say re-evaluating bodycam policy after shooting (StarTribune) Body camera footage shows officer planting drugs, public defender says (Baltimore Sun) Jeff Sessions’s praise of DARE shows he just can’t quit the 1980s (Vox) Ex-police officer Ray Tensing will not be tried again in fatal shooti

Sessions DOJ shake up, Trump eases scrutiny of police, making law and data more accessible, Joe's Tent City shuts down, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Sessions orders Justice Department to review all police reform agreements (Washington Post) Police Unions Hail Trump’s Easing of Scrutiny. Local Officials Worry. (NYTimes) Law and the New Order: A Fresh Wave of District Attorneys Is Redefining Justice (Governing) Large Majority Favors Criminal Justice Reform Belief that crime is increasing grows by ten percentage points since 2015 (Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs - LSU) CRIME RATE Governors from 4 states with legal marijuana ask Trump administration to leave them alone (Business Insider) Analysis: Undocumented Immigrants Not Linked With Higher Crime Rates (Governing) Why Solving Old Murders Can Help Prevent New Ones (TheCrimeReport.org) This company’s drugs helped fuel Florida’s opioid crisis. But the government struggled to hold it acco

Walter Scott Trial, Oakland fire, Houston Police Shooting, Walmart crime and more... SpotCrime noted as o ne of Baltimore’s civic tech startup success stories (Technic.ly) Jury Deadlocked! Mistrial declared in case against South Carolina officer who shot Walter Scott after traffic stop  (WaPo) Oakland fire death toll hits 33: DA’s team looking into criminal charges (SFGate) Houston Police Officer fatally shoots suspect (ABC13) Preliminary 2016 Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities (NLEOMF) How states are making the holidays merry, even for prisoners (Governing) The ‘Startling’ Link Between Low Interest Rates and Low Crime (TheCrimeReport) ‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’: Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days. (NYTimes) The Future of Policing under Donald Trump (Vice) Allegheny County DA's office paid bitcoin ransom in cyberat