SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Police shootings, police surveillance, bodycam transparency
Fatal police shootings, addressing retail theft, cyber crimes, Chicago students walk out over gun violence, face recognition in US criminal investigations, "Find My" app wrongly targets a grandmother, gunshot detection in Portland, license plate readers, bodycam transparency, backlog of court cases, prison oversight, and more... POLICE CONDUCT As fatal police shootings increase, more go unreported (The Washington Post) Iowa police chief charged with lying to ATF to obtain machine guns for resale (Des Moines Register) Portland Cops Will Use Overtime to Address Rising Retail Theft (Willamette Week) CRIME RATE The School That Calls the Police on Students Every Other Day (ProPublica) Chicago high school students walk out of class over gun violence (ABC News) The FBI is worried about a wave of cyber crime against America’s small businesses (CNBC) What a far-right plot to take over Germany can tell us about QAnon, extremism in the US (USA Today) The FBI’s Warning About ‘Sext