SpotCrime Weekly Reads: body cam, recruitment, violent crime
Body cam footage, police recruitment and low morale, diverting calls from police, does welfare reduce crime, schools underreporting crimes, violent crime, signs of a mass shooting, 'force multipliers', veteran crimes, department of corrections data portal, FOIA backlog, keeping minors our of prison, and more... POLICE CONDUCT How Body Cam Footage Shows Contradictions in Police Reports Around North Texas (Dallas Observer) see also: Dallas police officers now have to wear body camera on off-duty jobs, chief says (WFAA) Omaha, Bellevue police find good, bad in social media (WOWT) See If Police in Your State Reported Crime Data to the FBI There are growing gaps in U.S. crime stats. Use our tables to check on your state and local agencies. (The Marshall Project) LAPD not meeting recruitment goals, chief says (LA Daily News) see also: Chief resigns, 5 officers leave as Ypsilanti Police Department suffers from low morale (MLive) and also: R...