Mental health resources for police and increase in mental health calls in some cities, body cams on plain clothes cops requirement in Newark, militarization of police not reducing crime or helping police, police start using different and new crime reduction programs, police surveillance is evolving quickly, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
The Danger to Policing in Normalizing Extremism (The Police Foundation)
Newark Now Requires Most Plainclothes Cops To Wear Body Cameras (Patch)
Breaking Down the Police Response to a Pro-Trump Riot Vs. a George Floyd Protest (NBC Chicago)
National Police Foundation releases new report with results from national survey on how small law enforcement agencies respond to calls involving persons in crisis (The Police Foundation)
Calls for police crisis negotiations in 2020 triple previous record set in 2019 (KVAL)
CRIME RATE
Military equipment not reducing crime or helping police, new studies suggest (ABC11)
Houston Chief Acevedo says cooperation key to combating Houston’s rise in violent crime (Click2Houston)
Repeat offenders, new technology among topics of crime reduction discussion in New Orleans (Fox8)
Overall crimes decrease in Richmond County as sheriff office takes proactive approach (Augusta Chronicle)
Study: Sudden police layoffs in one Newark in 2010 associated with increases in crime (Eureka Alert)
Baltimore PD adjusts microzones based on data to focus more police resources in violent areas (WBAL)
Amarillo submits funding request to aid Project Safe Neighborhoods (Amarillo.com)
CRIM-TECH
What companies can do to combat A.I. bias (Fortune)
Surveillance And Local Police: How Technology Is Evolving Faster Than Regulation (WAMU)
Emotet: The world’s most dangerous malware botnet was just disrupted by a major police operation (ZDNet)
Columbus to spend $4.5M to improve police bodycams (LimaOhio.com)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Data Science Applied to Crime Analysis Based on Brazilian Open Government Data (TandFOnline)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
DUMB CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK
Bank robber nabbed after allegedly filling out withdrawal slip for $10,000, handing photo ID to teller (Chicago Tribune)
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