SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Police reform, department staffing, crime rate

Police reform efforts, DOJ dismisses investigations, police department staffing, police oversight commission, community policing boards, Take It Down Act signed into law, drug possession decriminalization, cracking down on fare jumpers, crime rates, violence during COVID-19, real-time facial recognition, crime algorithms, FOIL reform effort, Alabama prison litigation, AI in court filings, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Minneapolis makes history with civilian hires in police reform effort (KARE11) Inclusion, transparency, trust top priorities for new Santa Maria police chief Christopher Williams (Santa Maria Times) Trump DOJ dismisses investigations of police in several cities, including Minneapolis (WGLT) Big Police Departments Have Stopped Shrinking. But they aren't growing, for the most part. (Jeff-alytics) Citizens Police Oversight Commission Names Civil Rights Attorney Ewuare Osayande as Deputy Executive Director (City of Philadelphia) Olympia opens applica...