Police suicides, use of force tracking, body cams, 2021 homicide numbers, police use of AI, facial recognition tech used to identify insurrectionists, did bail reform work or fail, crime prediction tech, COIVD outbreaks in jail, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Florida sheriff hopes suicides of 2 deputies is ‘catalyst for change’ (NBC News)
New use-of-force tracking system moves Tennessee in right direction (TN Coalition for Open Government)
Police Don’t Need a Warrant to Pull Personal Data from Cars (Governing)
Vicksburg cops without body cameras can be suspended 5 days (The Herald) see also: St. Louis County Sheriff’s View: Body-worn cameras reduce use-of-force incidents (Duluth News Tribune)
Fort Worth 911 Response Times Fall Short of Goals: Audit (Governing)
CRIME RATE
Why More American Children Are Dying by Gunfire (New York Times)
10 of the country’s most populous cities set homicide records last year (KVOA) see also: Charlotte had 96 homicides in 2021. Here’s a map showing where each happened (Charlotte Observer) and also: Public safety advocates respond to decrease in St. Louis homicides in 2021 (KSDK)
Crime in the new U.S. epicenter of COVID-19 (Springer Link)
Lowcountry law enforcement discusses violent crime numbers after string of shootings (Count on 2 News)
Hackers breached Florida health care system, potentially exposing data on 1.3 million people (WAAY31)
OPD Addresses a Challenging Year in Crime, With Year-End Data (City of Oakland)
As murders surge in Louisiana, the number of cases being solved is dropping (Daily Advertiser)
CRIM-TECH
Police Use of Artificial Intelligence: 2021 in Review (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Denver City Council approves long contract extension with gunshot detection company ShotSpotter (Denver Post)
Crime Prediction Keeps Society Stuck in the Past (Wired)
Schenectady police expand bodycams to animal control, parking attendants (The Times Union)
This Site Published Every Face From Parler’s Capitol Riot Videos (Wired)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Steven Potter: How to file a request for public records from your local, state or federal government (Wisconsin State Journal)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
New data proves bail reform both worked and failed, depending on who you ask (City & State New York)
Rikers: The Obituaries Fifteen people at the jail died in 2021. These are their lives — and how they came to an end. (NY Mag Intelligencer)
Ohio governor to send Reserve members to Cuyahoga County Jail amid COVID-19 outbreak (Stars and Stripes)
Brittany Suszan 