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Fatal police shootings, addressing retail theft, cyber crimes, Chicago students walk out over gun violence, face recognition in US criminal investigations, "Find My" app wrongly targets a grandmother, gunshot detection in Portland, license plate readers, bodycam transparency, backlog of court cases, prison oversight, and more... POLICE CONDUCT As fatal police shootings increase, more go unreported  (The Washington Post) Iowa police chief charged with lying to ATF to obtain machine guns for resale  (Des Moines Register) Portland Cops Will Use Overtime to Address Rising Retail Theft  (Willamette Week) CRIME RATE The School That Calls the Police on Students Every Other Day  (ProPublica) Chicago high school students walk out of class over gun violence  (ABC News) The FBI is worried about a wave of cyber crime against America’s small businesses  (CNBC) What a far-right plot to take over Germany can tell us about QAnon, extremism in the US  (USA Today) The FBI’s Warning About ‘Sext

Police shootings, body cams, Uber for 911, SWAT raids, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Military-Trained Police May Be Less Hasty To Shoot, But That Got This Vet Fired (NPR) Indiana town's entire police force quits (IndyStar) Campus police officer shoots teen during confrontation at Nevada high school (FoxNews) See Also: Reno officer's shooting of knife-wielding teen sparks debate (CBS) Let’s Listen to Cops—If We Want Real Policing Reform (TCR) Civil Rights Group Issues ‘Travel Warning To Black Americans’: Stay Out Of Eastpointe, It’s Too Dangerous For You (CBSLocal) SWAT raids are more about symbolism than reducing crime in the long term (USAPP) Popularity of private security group growing in Albuquerque (KOB.com) PROTECTING OR POLICING? School-based police officers are paid to protect our kids. But sometimes they do more harm than good (HuffPo) NYC Jail Admissions Drop 46.9% Over Two Decades (TCR) Georgia Police Shooting: 2nd

Walter Scott Trial, Oakland fire, Houston Police Shooting, Walmart crime and more... SpotCrime noted as o ne of Baltimore’s civic tech startup success stories (Technic.ly) Jury Deadlocked! Mistrial declared in case against South Carolina officer who shot Walter Scott after traffic stop  (WaPo) Oakland fire death toll hits 33: DA’s team looking into criminal charges (SFGate) Houston Police Officer fatally shoots suspect (ABC13) Preliminary 2016 Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities (NLEOMF) How states are making the holidays merry, even for prisoners (Governing) The ‘Startling’ Link Between Low Interest Rates and Low Crime (TheCrimeReport) ‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’: Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days. (NYTimes) The Future of Policing under Donald Trump (Vice) Allegheny County DA's office paid bitcoin ransom in cyberat