Police reform, gaps in national crime data, FBI not releasing three months of crime data lacking law enforcement report sharing, new Florida elections police force, surveillance by game warden unconstitutional, progress addressing mental health calls, combating homelessness with crime data, place based policing, crime trends over the past two years, criminal justice in rural America, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Anne Arundel County Council votes against investigative powers for Police Advisory Board (Capital Gazette)
DOJ Launches Voluntary Police Reform Program (TheCrimeReport.org)
Florida Is Set to Create a New Police Force to Investigate Elections (Bolts Mag)
School resource officer data shows more than 2,000 criminal charges laid over one decade: Researchers (The Edmonton Journal)
Most LAPD officers who violate policy in shootings avoid serious punishment, report shows (Los Angeles Daily News)
MD Bill Would Limit Police Interrogation of Youths without Adult Present (Public News Service)
In Victory for Property Owners Statewide, Tennessee Court Strikes Down Game Warden Surveillance Law as Unconstitutional (Institute for Justice)
NYPD Sued Over ‘Illegal and Unregulated DNA Database’ of 33,000 Profiles (TheCrimeReport.org)
CRIME RATE
Two Years of Wide Variation in Crime Trends (Public Policy Institute of California)
NYPD adds more Neighborhood Safety Teams to crime-ridden areas (ABC7)
Curbing Violent Crime Through Place-based Policing (Route Fifty)
New crime data is basis for three-tiered plan to combat homelessness, San Diego DA says (KUSI)
Public Safety Committee Chair is Encouraged With the Progress Made by the City’s Pilot Program to Address Mental Health Calls (City of San Antonio)
CRIM-TECH
Cellphone dragnet used to find bank robbery suspect was unconstitutional, judge says (NBC News)
RI state troopers to get $3,000 stipends for use of body cameras (The Providence Journal)
Mobile’s Gun Violence Reduction Plan Sparks Surveillance Concerns (Governing.com)
Inside the volunteer ‘police department’ arresting people in VR (Input Mag)
Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded (Gizmodo)
NYC speed cameras issue nearly 8 times more tickets than red light cameras, data shows (SILive.com)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
The Alarming Gaps in National Crime Data (The Trace) see also: FBI not releasing 3 months of crime data, cites lack of law enforcement report sharing (KY3)
Letters and cards telling people about local police reduce crime (Nature.com)
Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency (CS Indy)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
The Crisis in Access to Justice in Rural America (Legal Talk Network)
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