Week of September 20, 2021

COVID leading cause of death for police officers, Portland officer shortage, Durham police disregard body cam policies, gun violence, George Floyd’s murder related to decrease in calls to police, sex offender registries have no impact on recidivism, DOJ reviewing law enforcement grants, more police departments adopting body cams, the FBIs crime data shortage, impact of body cams on court outcomes, calls on EU to ban predictive policing AI, and more…

POLICE CONDUCT

‘My dad didn’t have a fighting chance’: Covid is leading cause of death among law enforcement (NBC News)

New Akron police chief tells City Council community must help to quell rising gun violence (Beacon Journal)

Portland mayor wants to bring back retired police officers to help fill shortage, address gun violence (OPB.org)

Audit: Durham police officers routinely disregard policies on bodycam videos (WRAL)

Denver’s 2022 city budget proposal dominated by public safety (Denver Gazette)

What the Rest of America Can Learn From Colorado One year after widespread protests, state reforms have brought accountability to policing, if not an end to brutality. (The Atlantic)

To Protect Civil Rights, DOJ to Review Law Enforcement Grants (TheCrimeReport.org)

Orlando police say mental health workers handling some calls for police is working (WESH)

IMPD possesses more than 5,000 untested rape kits (FOX59)

St. Louis police use force against Black residents far more often than whites, study finds (St Louis Today)

CRIME RATE

Police Are Giving Amazon Ring Cameras to Survivors of Domestic Violence. Is It Helping? (Consumer Reports)

Portland Gun Crime Prosecutions Rise Dramatically as Violence Surges (The Chronicle)

LAPD Says Armed Robberies Have Become An Alarming Trend (CBS LA)

George Floyd’s murder discouraged Americans from calling the police. As shootings rose, 911 calls fell across eight cities in the aftermath of the incident (The Economist)

LMPD data: Nearly 500 guns stolen from cars in less than 2 years (WAVE 3) see also: Where Police Recover the Most Guns in Chicago (NBC Chicago)
Crime, quarantine, and the U.S. coronavirus pandemic (Wiley Online Library)

CRIM-TECH

The Rocky Road to a More Robust 911 System (TheCrimeReport.org)

Tyler Police Department seeks to add digital forensic specialist for recovering data for investigations (Tyler Morning Telegraph)

Michigan State Police to get body cameras in new state budget (WLNS6) see also: ‘A long time coming’: More Oklahoma communities implementing police body cameras (NONDOC)

NGO Fair Trials calls on EU to ban predictive policing systems (Computer Weekly) see also: A closer look at artificial intelligence-inspired policing technologies (University of Virginia)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

The FBI’s Crime Data Shortage (The Trace)

More Tribes Given Enhanced Access to US Crime Data (InfoSecurity)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Seeing is believing: the impact of body-worn cameras on court outcomes, a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Miami Beach (Springer Link)

The effectiveness of Sex Offender Registration and Notification: A meta-analysis of 25 years of findings. SORN policies demonstrate no effect on recidivism. (Springer Link)

Patent applications reveal how tech companies may further threaten privacy for people in prison (MarketPlace.org)