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SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Red flag laws, police staffing, surveillance

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Emergency call times, police staffing shortage, red flag laws, illegal guns, San Fran robots that can kill, biometric surveillance, corporate crime data, body cams, NY prison racial disparity, college in prison, and more... POLICE CONDUCT CMPD shares more insight about long emergency call times  (WCNC) Are Police Helicopter Fleets Worth the Money?  (Mother Jones) Janet Lauritsen issues call to modernize nation’s crime statistics during presidential address at American Society of Criminology conference  (UMSL.edu) Police forces scramble to fill vacancies as crime rises CRIME RATE 19 states have red flag laws, but they are rarely used to stop gun violence  (Poynter) Why crime data may not present an accurate picture  (KSMU) Where are the criminals in Rochester getting their illegal guns?  (WHEC) CRIM-TECH San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill  (AP News) A conversation on AI-powered gunshot detection with a police technology expert  (Carolina Public Press) Mass. issue

SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Internal affairs, mass surveillance, prison labor

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New NJ dashboard detailing info on internal affairs investigations, cellphone location data, Columbus use of force, private police forces, illegal gun sales, crime rate, welfare and crime, mass surveillance on a budget, police oversight commission, prison labor, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Acting AG Platkin Launches New Dashboard Detailing Information on Police Internal Affairs Investigations Statewide  (NJOAG.gov) How police work with Google to obtain cellphone location data for criminal investigations  (USA Today) Data on Columbus Division of Police use of force, deadly shootings shows racial disparity  (WBNS) St. Louis’ Private Police Forces Make Security a Luxury of the Rich  (ProPublica) CRIME RATE Biden’s ATF Chief Looks to Cut Illegal Gun Sales, Hate Crimes  (Bloomberg Law) Data reveals growing number of teenagers skipping school, mayor says  (Action News 5) Shooting Spree Leaves 4 Dead in Memphis and Paralyzes City  (NY Times) Has crime fallen after two Michigan counties stopped