SpotCrime Weekly Reads: Crime rate, transparency, surveillance
Dropping crime rates, protecting murder victims, asset forfeiture, violent victimization decreasing, reducing gun violence, cameras are unbiased, federal lawsuit challenges use of cameras for surveillance, potential of public data for social impact, Boston broken transparency website, Austin police contract, Tennessee prisons, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Mahaska County to charge towns more for police services (The Oskaloosa Herald) Former Indiana sheriff gets 12 years for spending funds on travel and gifts (Associated Press) City: Police had no constitutional duty to protect murder victim (Iowa Capital Dispatch) How you can provide input on Fresno's next police chief (ABC30) Police officer helped steal thousands in Crime Stoppers rewards (Fox4KC) The Topline: Asset forfeiture falls following reform (Minnesota Reformer) CRIME RATE Inside the Carjacking Crisis On the street with an elite police unit as it combats a crime wave (The Atlantic) Violent Victimization is Decreasing–B