SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Immigration crime data, murders decline, algorithms, FBI hate crime data, and more...
Algorithm helps case investigations, body cams impact jurors, fight crime by addressing addiction, counting hate crimes, immigration crime data misunderstood, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Slain Utah police officer Joseph Shinners mourned by police departments across US (Yahoo News) A UK police force is dropping tricky cases on advice of an algorithm (New Scientist) Indianapolis Responds to Record-Setting Homicides (Nuvo.net) How police body cam videos impact jurors differently than dashcam videos (Phys.org) CRIME RATE Many police departments report decline in murders in 2018 — but not in these cities (CBS News) 5 facts about crime in the U.S. (Pew) New St. Louis County prosecutor wants to fight crime by addressing addiction and mental health (St Louis Post-Dispatch) Many hate crimes never make it into the FBI’s database (The Conversation) Majority of Baltimore homicide victims in 2018 were shot in the head, analysis shows (Baltimore Sun) How Wilmington pol