SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Police background checks, facial recognition at NFL games, Columbus cyberattack, police commission and civilian review boards, CT reduces traffic stop racial profiling, post arrest DNA swabs, Real Time Crime Index is live, violence against teacher, ghost gun manufacturer shuttered, security robots, AI body cam tech, NJ law requires more transparency for sexual assault victims, body cam footage fees, transparency on bail decisions, and more... POLICE CONDUCT All Texas police officer licenses now searchable online  (KTAL) see also:  New Software Aims to Revamp the Police Background Check  (GovTech) and also:  Austin, police must end use of confidential police personnel file, judge rules  (Austin American Statesman) Las Vegas police refuse to comply with NFL facial recognition tech at games  (Red River Radio) Audit Calls Honolulu Police Commission’s Oversight ‘Inconsistent And Ineffective’  (Honolulu Civil Beat) see also:  Do Civilian Review Boards W...

Mental health specialists during emergencies, deadly year for WI police, why are there mass killings, crime trends, hacking crime wave, cities dealing with ransomware attacks, combating the Mississippi crime rate, DNA 'lab in a box', missing body cam video, erasing 'trail penalty', and more... POLICE CONDUCT N.J. advocates ‘encouraged’ by recent analysis of program that pairs cops with mental health specialists during emergency responses  (WHYY) With killing of St. Croix County deputy, 2023 deadliest year for Wisconsin police in decades  (Madison.com) To combat violent crime, Salt Lake City is doing it like Dallas  (Salt Lake Tribune) CRIME RATE Why so many mass killings? Families, experts seek answers  (Associated Press) see also:  Why are Americans shooting strangers and neighbors? ‘It all goes back to fear.’  (Washington Post) A Behavioral Sequence Analysis of Mass School Shooters Examining Stressors, Antisocial Behaviors, Mental Health Issues, and Plann...

Alexa as a witness, Sessions is out, violent crime goes unreported,  and more... POLICE CONDUCT Sessions, in Last-Minute Act, Sharply Limits Use of Consent Decrees to Curb Police Abuses  (NYTimes) Planning begins for $1M grant to help fight crime in Flint neighborhoods  (NBC25) Improved technology, data analysis helps IMPD turn corner on crime  (CBS4) One-on-one with Henderson's Police chief to discuss crime data and community impact  (Las Vegas Now) CRIME RATE When and where America’s mass shootings have occurred in 2018  (AJC) New Jersey Outlaws Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns,’ 3-D Printing of Firearms  (Bloomberg) Vast majority of violent crime goes unreported in metro Atlanta: Hospital study  (ABC News) Randolph DA adopts Project Safe Neighborhoods to fight violent crime  (Courier-Tribune) CRIM-TECH Amazon’s Alexa might be a key witness in a murder case POLICE TRANSPARENCY  TBI Director announces more transparency on...

POLICE CONDUCT Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology  (The Verge) See also:  The Future of Policing Is Being Hashed Out in Secret  (Bloomberg) and also:  Artificial intelligence could identify gang crimes—and ignite an ethical firestorm  (ScienceMag) Homebuying incentive could help San Diego with police officer shortage  (San Diego Tribune) 2017 saw highest number of officer-involved shootings in more than two decades  (The Spokesman Review) CRIME RATE Philly Study: Cleaning Vacant Land Can Significantly Reduce Crime  (PhillyMag.com) When the Saints play, do fewer people in New Orleans get shot?  (NOLA.com) Global Cost of Cyber-Crime Reached a New High of $600 Billion in 2017  (eWeek) Did mass shootings increase 200 percent since assault weapons ban expired?  (Politifact) See also:  Four Or Five Mass Shootings A Year-Not One A Day  (CrimeInAmerica.net) Port...

Chicago's awful start to 2017,  2016 police and civilian deaths, shootings, body-cam dilemmas, and your dumb criminal of the week. POLICE CONDUCT 2016 Preliminary End-of-Year Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities Report (NLEOMF.org) 1,085 People Killed by Police in the US in 2016 (The Guardian) Why Some Problem Cops Don’t Lose Their Badges (Wall Street Journal) Changing the “Culture of Policing”—One Recruit at a Time (TCR) NYPD Changes Policy, Will Allow Officers to Wear Turbans (CNN) NOPD improved response times in 2016, but effects of depleted force still widely felt (TheAdvocate) Trump tweets Chicago might need federal help on violence (Chicago Tribune) How to stop guns, gangs and poverty? Chicago seeks solutions after violent 2016 (Chicago Tribune) CRIME RATE Chicago: 4 in custody after mentally disabled man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live  (Fox32) 2016 ends with 762 homicides; 2017 opens with fatal Uptown gunfight in Chicago (C...

Shootings in Baltimore, MD in less than a month period There are many different datasets currently being curated involving shootings - homicides involving firearms, suicides involving firearms, accidental shootings, police involved shootings, mass shootings - but nothing specifically to track all shootings, no matter the circumstance. SpotCrime is the only crime mapping company that intentionally breaks out shootings from assaults and makes a shooting it’s own stand alone icon. In many cases, this is not an easy task. Police agencies identify shootings a couple of ways so the ability for residents to identify when a shooting occurs becomes difficult. Occasionally shooting data is easy to find, and other times it is buried under complex systems of crime classifications. We’ve found that CAD data sets identify shootings immediately, mainly because they have not been assigned a crime classification yet (think UCR/NIBRS). RMS (Records Management System) data can be great if t...