Emergency call times, police staffing shortage, red flag laws, illegal guns, San Fran robots that can kill, biometric surveillance, corporate crime data, body cams, NY prison racial disparity, college in prison, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
CMPD shares more insight about long emergency call times (WCNC)
Are Police Helicopter Fleets Worth the Money? (Mother Jones)
Police forces scramble to fill vacancies as crime rises
CRIME RATE
19 states have red flag laws, but they are rarely used to stop gun violence (Poynter)
Why crime data may not present an accurate picture (KSMU)
Where are the criminals in Rochester getting their illegal guns? (WHEC)
CRIM-TECH
San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill (AP News)
A conversation on AI-powered gunshot detection with a police technology expert (Carolina Public Press)
Mass. issues dozens of police department grants for body cameras (Mass Live)
US biometric surveillance database reaches 10,000 data points (Biometric Update)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Justice Department Should Publish Corporate Crime Data (Public Citizen)
New crime-mapping tool gives people in Oceanside ‘peace of mind,’ transparency (Fox 5 San Diego)
Real-time crime stats to be available on new WF Police dashboard (Valley News Live)
Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office defends its transparency against attorneys, City Council (NOLA.com)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Report: Wide racial disparity in New York prison discipline (Star Tribune)
Mass. leaders push benefits of college-in-prison programs to the incoming administration (WGBH)
Brittany Suszan 