SpotCrime Weekly Reads: PredPol software under scrutiny, backlog rape kits tested, poverty and crime
PredPol program shut down in some cities but kept on in others, civilian oversight of police agencies debated, gun laws and mass shootings connected, connection between poverty and crime, Shotspotter pros and cons, prison reform, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Bodycam shows officers save man from burning car seconds before it explodes (ABC30) LAPD to change crime data program as activists tell Police Commission to ‘shut it down’ (LA Times) see also: Eight years in, LAPD can’t measure PredPol’s effect on crime (MuckRock) and also: Audit Finds LAPD Predictive Policing Programs Lack Oversight (Courthouse News) and: Baltimore set to renew contract with predictive policing group, citing violence declines in targeted areas (Baltimore Sun) and finally: Bay Area police try out controversial AI software that tells them where to patrol (Mercury News) 5 examples of how evidence-based policing enhances law enforcement (Police...