SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Crime rate, AI, prison deals
De-escalation tactics, CA police misconduct database, Honolulu police chief quits, disbanding police departments, murder plunge, crime drop, drop in shootings, SNAP disbursement and crime incidence, live facial recognition deployment, police drones, predictive crime, big data and generative AI, crime data transparency, how many people die in custody, prisons ink deals with ICE, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Spokane Police Chief Hall discusses officer-involved shootings, de-escalation tactics and city crime data (KHQ) California police misconduct records now available in public database (Cal Matters) Ithaca police officer consistently broke rules. Then he sued his union for racial bias. (Observer Dispatch) Former Honolulu Police Chief Says Mayor’s Threats Led Him To Quit (Honolulu Civil Beat) Wisconsin village considers disbanding police department, contracting with county (Wisconsin Public Radio) CRIME RATE Murder Officially Plunged in 2024 That and more takea...