SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Fake robberies in visa fraud scheme, managing mental health crises, digital dragnets, algorithmic bias in predictive policing, mass surveillance, license plate readers and privacy laws, AI to help solve cold cases, AI police radio app causes panic, body cam audit logs, FOIA, police transparency laws, geofencing warrants, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Cambridge Police Commissioner Christine Elow to Retire After More Than 30 years With Department  (CambridgeMA.gov) Police Chiefs Allegedly Faked Robberies in $5,000-a-Pop Visa Fraud Scheme  (The Wall Street Journal) Should police be turning up at all? Managing mental health crises in an English Constabulary under the Right Care, Right Person framework  (Taylor and Francis Online) Seaford police chief presents the department's new strategic plan  (Delaware Public Media) Ethics complaint raises serious allegations against Miami Police Chief Manny Morales  (Florida Politics) CRIME RATE Supreme Court weighs phone searches ...

Complaints against officers, New Orleans ending federal oversight, DOJ reforms in Minneapolis, crime rate falling, shooting data, anti-hazing laws, homicides, dispatch system glitch, police surveillance cameras, charging for body cam video, youth charged as adults, expungement, and more... POLICE CONDUCT New bill would seal unproven complaints against officers  (City & State New York) New Orleans Police can begin the process of ending federal oversight  (The Minnesota Star Tribune) Minneapolis, DOJ agree on police reforms in wake of George Floyd murder  (WGLT) CRIME RATE Crime Is Falling. Why Don’t Americans Believe It?  (Governing)  The Disappearing American Bank Robbery  (Jeff-alytics) What We Learned From Analyzing 10 Years of Shooting Data  (The Trace) A vanishingly small number of violent sex crimes end in conviction, NBC News investigation shows  (NBC Philadelphia) The partisanship of mayors has no detectable effect on police spending, p...