Body cam footage, police recruitment and low morale, diverting calls from police, does welfare reduce crime, schools underreporting crimes, violent crime, signs of a mass shooting, ‘force multipliers’, veteran crimes, department of corrections data portal, FOIA backlog, keeping minors our of prison, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
How Body Cam Footage Shows Contradictions in Police Reports Around North Texas (Dallas Observer) see also: Dallas police officers now have to wear body camera on off-duty jobs, chief says (WFAA)
Omaha, Bellevue police find good, bad in social media (WOWT)
See If Police in Your State Reported Crime Data to the FBI There are growing gaps in U.S. crime stats. Use our tables to check on your state and local agencies. (The Marshall Project)
LAPD not meeting recruitment goals, chief says (LA Daily News) see also: Chief resigns, 5 officers leave as Ypsilanti Police Department suffers from low morale (MLive) and also: Report shows violent crime down in Durham, but staff vacancies up (WRAL)
Ex-Louisville police officer pleads guilty to Breonna Taylor cover-up (Reuters)
City of Phoenix Wants to Divert Calls From Its Police (Phoenix New Times)
A new card helps the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing community interact with law enforcement (Boise State Public Radio)
DCPS responds to scathing report saying district underreported crimes (News4Jax)
CRIME RATE
Is Violent Crime Increasing? (UPenn Dept of Criminology)
Shots fired in US schools spiked dramatically last year, gun violence report finds (USA Today)
Former FBI agent suggests ‘force multipliers’ to help combat Baltimore crime (Fox Baltimore)
Does Welfare Reduce Crime? with Manasi Deshpande Groundbreaking study examines one program’s impact on employment and incarceration (UChiago News)
Commission will study why veterans are more likely than nonveterans to get in trouble with the law (NBC News)
Reports of hate crimes are rising—here are how protections vary by state (Stacker)
After rise in killings, Louisiana’s rural parishes twice as deadly as U.S. metros, data shows (NOLA.com)
CRIM-TECH
Durham, N.C., ShotSpotter Rollout Delayed by City Council (GovTech)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Exclusive: Department of Correction launches new data portal (NY1)
Seattle Police’s backlog of open record requests now over 2,800 (Axios)
Proposed measure aims to permanently ensure access to public data in Louisville (WFPL)
CT police use-of-force report hampered by incomplete data (Journal Inquirer)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Salt Lake County initiative helps hundreds accused of minor crimes stay out of court, data shows (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Brittany Suszan 