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Community policing efforts and foot patrols increase, criminal justice reform debates around crime rate, secret surveillance cameras placed and removed by Lake County (FL) Sheriff, transparency surrounding gunshot detection demanded in ABQ, restorative justice and foster care-to-prison pipeline for youth, misconceptions about police reform, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Phoenix police can't fill at least 1,035 vacant positions, putting our safety at risk  (AZ Central) Watchdog Group: Aurora Police Department Needs To Improve Use-Of-Force Training, Hiring And Data Collection  (CPR News) Build Public Trust, Florida Police Chiefs Association Urges In Report On Better Policing  (WUSF) Burlington public safety study highlights desire for social services and police oversight, training  (VTDigger)  University of Iowa shifts focus to student well-being in re-imagining campus safety  (The Gazette) Mayor: Minneapolis PD will no longer conduct 'pretextual' traffic stops ...

Abusing license plate readers, police use of DNA databases, effects of community policing, Congress expresses concerns over Ring doorbell relationship with PDs, State police's $12.2M database does not work, live streaming body cams, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Abilene Police 'Officer of the Year' also wins life saving award  (KTXS) Community-oriented policing to reduce crime, disorder and fear and increase satisfaction and legitimacy among citizens: a systematic review  (Academia.edu) see also: Charleston police to hold conversation with community to address crime reports  (Live 5 News WCSC) and also:  Neighborhood by Neighborhood: Community Policing in a Rust Belt City  (Academia.edu) California Police Have Been Illegally Sharing License Plate Reader Data  (Vice) see also:  Audit: police license plate readers at risk for data breaches, misuse Seymour police captain, former chief arrested on ghost employment charges  (Fox59) Neighbors sa...

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SpotCrime - an independent crime mapping and crime alert service - is re-introducing SpotCrime Catapult, a free software solution that allows police departments worldwide to make their crime data public. Catapult was created by SpotCrime developers and enables any police department to export public crime data from their records management or computer aided dispatch systems.  In addition to the free software, SpotCrime is also offering any police department that implements Catapult and makes their crime data available to the public, up to $4,000 in reimbursement to defray costs of implementation.  Alternatively, SpotCrime is also willing to itself pay up to $4,000 to provide the technical services to help pull a public crime data file from any police agency's system. (Detailed terms and conditions set forth here http://bit.ly/131j4xg ). “With open data initiatives rolling out everywhere, SpotCrime wants to make it easy for police departments to release their crim...

Typically, when a police agencies releases CAD or RMS data, they release block level address locations. SpotCrime will ask police agencies for latitude and longitude coordinates, block level addresses, and even exact addresses. Lat/long coordinates are a part of our SpotCrime Open Crime Data Standard (SOCS). This level of location information helps plot a crime as accurately as possible on a map.  Recently, we’ve noticed two trends that are disconcerting to the public - reporting crime by intersections, and Marsy's law (or any related law) that bans the release of crime locations all together. Intersection reporting First, the San Francisco Police Department has decided to publish crime locations by the intersections citing privacy concerns.  We reached out to San Francisco PD and their reasoning was  ‘...to ensure privacy all parties involved, minimize re-identification risk, and still provide as much useful, informative data as possible, the departm...

Community policing focus for agencies, deciphering PredPol through it's manual, Orlando's round two of facial recognition, Milwaukee ACLU ruling, health data and crime relationship and more... POLICE CONDUCT 73 Law Enforcement Line-of-Duty Deaths in First Half of 2018 Firearms-related fatalities increase 24 percent over same period last year  (NLEOMF.org) Long Island's top cops use technology to target guns, gangs and drugs  (Newsday) The Park City Police Are Reaching Out To HOA's To Lower Crime Rates In Neighborhoods  (KPCW) see also:  Police outreach in DC community where tensions are high doesn't go as planned  (WUSA) Baltimore police stopped noticing crime after Freddie Gray's death. A wave of killings followed.  (USAToday) Callback system aims to close loop for APD reports  (KTVA) Common Council approves historic settlement with ACLU over unconstitutional traffic stops (Milwaukee Independent) CRIME RATE Live in a Chicago neighborhoo...

Two agencies, The Vera Institute of Justice in accordance with The Police Foundation and the NYPD in accordance with Microsoft, have recently announced their own separate development, test, and implementation of a model for law enforcement agencies aiming to upgrade current CompStat processes. Both The Vera Institute and NYPD are calling their new versions of CompStat ‘CompStat 2.0’. The Vera Institute has a history of work on public safety related issues like police management practices, police-community relations, misconduct, and policing in democratic societies worldwide. And, the Vera Institute worked with the NYPD in the past on development of projects including The Manhattan Summons project as well as the development and implementation of the original CompStat launched by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton in the early 90’s. The New CompStat 2.0 (two different versions) Unfortunately, we weren’t able to receive any information from NYPD PIO office on their version o...