Week of April 11, 2022

Violent crime plans, civilian review boards, public safety index, ghost guns, USPS suspends service due to crime, 911 systems and open data, Google location data and police, police surveillance, facial recognition, criminal justice data portal, body cams and transparency, ex-convicts housing, and more…

POLICE CONDUCT

Little Rock collaborating with Pine Bluff in effort to reduce violent crime (KAUR) see also: Fort Worth Police implement new violent crime plan (WFAA)

Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him. (WIRED)

Michigan police release video showing officer knelt on Black man, fatally shot him (WCSC)

Buffalo, N.Y., police officers cleared of wrongdoing after shoving elderly man to ground at protest (CBC)

Shielded from accountability: How NYPD Officers Get Away with Lying to the CCRB (Latino Justice)

Teens more likely to disengage from school after police stops (APA)

CRIME RATE

Public Safety Index In Seattle Important To Recovery (Seattle Medium)

Biden Cracks Down on ‘Ghost Guns’ With New Rule to Tackle Gun Violence (US News)

Vera Institute proposes additional spending on prevention, rather than arrests and prosecution, to tackle violent crime (The Lens)

USPS services suspended in Santa Monica neighborhood after repeat attacks on carriers (CBSNews)

65% of Bay Area residents say fear of crime keeps them from visiting big city downtowns (ABC7)

Poverty, crime linked to differences in newborns’ brains (Science Daily)

Factbox: Despite recent uptick, New York City crime down from past decades (Reuters)

Former partners-in-crime likely to violently turn on one another – UK crime gang study (Newswise)

CRIM-TECH

High-Tech Crime-Fighting: New operation extracts data to build cases for police (Local12)

Case study: 911 Systems and Open Data: The Reimagine 911 National Action Team and Code for America (Data.world)

An autonomous Cruise vehicle left police confused when they tried to pull it over (Engadget)

Google Location Data Tempts Police While Privacy Advocates Worry (Bloomberg Law)

Police surveillance and facial recognition: Why data privacy is imperative for communities of color (Brookings)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Violent Crime is Underreported on HPD’s Crime Mapping Page (KITV4)

NC rolls out criminal justice data portal (GCN)

Body cameras becoming more prevalent among local agencies in important step for transparency (WRAL)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Surviving Prison is 90% Mental. That’s Why I Teach Workouts That Strengthen the Mind (The Marshall Project)

HUD aims to reduce friction for ex-convicts in need of housing (Inman)