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SCOTUS ruling will make law enforcement jobs harder, "Warrior Mindset" in policing, concealed carry laws lead to more gun crime, school shootings at highest number in 2 decades, behavioral health officers, CA DOJ data breach,  "epidemic of hate", online data could be used against women seeking abortion, Uvalde shooting transparency, AZ prison health care ruled unconstitutional, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Law enforcement officials: Supreme Court gun ruling will make our jobs harder  (Clayton News Daily) “Warrior Mindset” Persists Among Minneapolis Police After Training Reforms, Report Says  (Bolts Mag) Seattle discussing dispatching behavioral health providers, crisis experts to 911 calls  (King5) see also:  With new Public Health and Safety Team, Manchester aims to reduce non-emergency calls to the police department  (NHPR) Conflicting reports, gaps in data obscure true number of Pa. law enforcement agencies  (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) Improving Data fo...

FBI data unreliable, Uvalde body cam footage off limits, search and seizure with no crime in KS, medical records could land women in jail under new abortion laws, gun violence on campus, police surveillance, data lacking to identify racial disparities, civil rights violations in student ticketing, and more... POLICE CONDUCT What Can FBI Data Say About Crime in 2021? It’s Too Unreliable to Tell. Nearly 40% of law enforcement agencies around the country did not submit any data in 2021 to a newly revised FBI crime statistics collection program.  (The Marshall Project) Texas police want to block officers’ body cam footage of Uvalde massacre response being released to the public  (Independent) Denver police giving out Advance Auto Parts gift cards instead of tickets for broken tail lights  (KDVR) Police lethal violence against Black people may affect clearance of crimes involving Black victims  (Phys.org) California sheriff to stop sharing license-plate data after settlem...

Reviewing police like Uber drivers, LA State police under investigation, SF DA recalled, dispatching mental health specialists, 'gag order' against assault in schools, mass shootings, reducing gun violence, assault weapons ban, drone plans at Axon, surveillance networks, NY States criminal justice data, and more... POLICE CONDUCT In this small Va. town, citizens review police like Uber drivers  (The Washington Post) Louisiana State Police under investigation for excessive force or racially discriminatory policing  (ABC News) SFPD refused to help stop San Francisco Quickly car burglary ring, report alleges  (SFGate) see also:  San Francisco votes overwhelmingly to recall progressive DA Chesa Boudin  (CBS News) Public Safety Dept announces changes to address staffing levels at Public Safety Answering Points  (Vermont Biz) The Executive Order on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety I...

Minneapolis calls in outside agencies to assist with crime, hot spot policing, female police chief asks for equal pay, Facebook data and the fourth amendment, schools can make streets safer, body cams. police data transparency, crime data transparency, juvenile crime bill, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Watch "The Friendliest Town" a documentary that centers on a racially divided town, where the first Black police chief was abruptly fired, which ignited a charged conversation.  (Tubi TV) Cañon City's first female interim police chief alleges in lawsuit she was paid up to $19,000 a year less than male predecessors  (The Denver Post) City of Maricopa says to call or text 911, even if you have no service  (AZ Family) Minneapolis Calls In State Patrol, BCA To Assist With Crime  (CBS Minnesota) Facebook Data Release to Cops Evades Fourth Amendment Limits  (Bloomberg Law) see also:  Tech Giants Duped Into Giving Up Data Used to Sexually Extort Minors  (Bloomberg...

Gun violence, stolen guns from cars, FBI launches police suicide database, US violent crime rate, racial divide in policing, gun violence, analyzing body cam footage, lack of data hinders policy efforts, freedom of the database, federal solitary confinement, and more... POLICE CONDUCT BPD looks to improve service, accountability with tracking program  (Bakersfield.com) NYC Mayor Eric Adams names younger brother deputy NYPD commissioner, raising more concerns about conflicts of interest  (The Grio) Burbank Police are Improving Crime Measurement and Reporting  (MyBurbank.com) The American racial divide in fear of the police  (Wiley Online Library) see also:  The pandemic tanked traffic stops in 2020 — but racial disparities remained, data shows  (VTDigger) Ann Arbor may use federal stimulus to launch unarmed 911 response program  (MLive) see also:  APD 311 diversion helps with emergencies, creates backlog for low-level crimes  (KXAN) FBI Launch...

Violence prevention spending, looking at data to keep police accountable, Colorado cop barred from policing ends up as police chief, civil litigation as instrument for police reform, gun violence, less crime around strip clubs than Airbnbs, COVID-19 leads to sweeping changes in jails, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Boston police emphasize de-escalation, disengagement in mental health calls  (Boston Globe) State, law enforcement officials offer different assessments of Police Integrity Transparency and Accountability Act ‘We need these types of bills to hold law enforcement accountable.’  (Greeley Tribune) Federal Civil Litigation as an Instrument of Police Reform: A Natural Experiment Exploring the Effects of the Floyd Ruling on Stop-and-Frisk Activities in New York City  (Academia.edu) A Colorado cop was supposed to be barred from law enforcement. Instead, he became interim police chief.  (Mercury News) Governor’s Policing Surge In Jackson May Not Prevent Violence, Addr...

Crime rate post pandemic, tackling gun violence, using data to stop crime, facial recognition tech rules blurred, body cam footage transparency, crime data transparency, license plate reader data shared transparently by police departments, some states working to make raps sheets disappear, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Police chief to provide update on pairing mental health clinicians with officers  (The Modesto Bee) Metro Nashville police officers start Crisis Intervention Team training for community policing  (Tennessean.com) Fargo police chief announces plan to reorganize department, increase transparency  (Inforum) 'We didn't see an improvement': Montgomery mayor explains why former MPD Chief Finley resigned  (Montgomery Advertiser) Santa Ana Police Questioned About Why Some Sexual Assault Reports Receive Same Urgency as Graffiti  (Voice of OC) How many complaints against police officers can be abated by incapacitating a few “bad apples?”  (Wiley Online Li...

We updated the SpotCrime University Transparency Ranking! The last time we ranked access to crime data at universities was in 2017. We specifically look at access to the Jeanne Clery Act crime logs . The Jeanne Clery Act passed in 1990 and in addition to annual reports and timely notices of crimes, it requires a crime log to be kept and be made available and open for public inspection during normal business hours for the most recent 60-day period. Unfortunately, the law was created before the impetus of the internet , however a majority of university police departments across the US publish their crime and fire log directly to their website. In this round of ranking we wanted to know if the transparency level of a city police department influenced the transparency level of the university police department since jurisdictions of a university police department and local police department overlap. We looked at the 10 most populated cities (New York, LA , Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philade...