SpotCrime Weekly Reads: AI, mental health, gun violence

Mental health responders, radio encryption, child exploitation, fatal and nonfatal shootings comparisons, Mexico City crime, EverShot, gun violence, Dallas response times, DOJ report on AI, AI or non-emergency calls, police military equipment, Charlotte schools withhold sexual assault data, data in criminal justice, and more... POLICE CONDUCT As state slashes mental health funding, Tulsa adds 911 clinicians to divert crisis calls (Public Radio Tulsa) Police scanners in Minneapolis fall silent as MPD encrypts radio traffic (MPR News) CRIME RATE Child sexual exploitation and abuse is a multibillion-dollar industry – new report shows who benefits (The Conversation) Leveraging the National Incident-based Reporting System to compare fatal and nonfatal shooting incidents (Taylor & Francis Online) see also: EveryShot is a publicly available data tool that tracks gun violence incidents in the United States using AI to parse news stories about gun violence. ...