Gun violence prevention programs, police accountability, FBI gun seizures, data-driven approach to targeting gun violence, domestic violence, police surveillance, addressing violent crime, predictive policing, digital data used by police, government open data portals, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Mayor Duggan to launch gun violence prevention program at State of the City (Detroit Free Press)
Mayor to Mayor: Taking the lead on police accountability (Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab)
FBI gun seizure orders from people who fail background checks hit historic rates (USA Today)
CRIME RATE
A data-driven approach to targeting gun violence (Lockport Union-Sun & Journal)
Criminal justice analysis center releases new insight into domestic violence reported in N.C. (North Carolina Department of Public Safety) see also: Report details how one police department addresses domestic-related repeat calls for service (Police1.com)
Rise in bus driver assaults triggers new protection laws (Governing.com)
A look at approaches to address violent crime (NPR)
Criminal victimization in the 22 largest U.S. states, 2017–2019 (BJS.OJP.gov)
Officials vexed by rising strangulation cases in Fairfax County (Washington Post)
CRIM-TECH
Macon, Ga., Surveillance Project Raises Concerns (GovTech) and also: San Diego police want to access 500 streetlight cameras for surveillance, plus add license plate readers (Del Mar Times)
Police are prosecuting abortion seekers using their digital data — and Facebook and Google help them do it (Business Insider)
Predictive policing makes everyone a suspect, even EU officials (TechDirt)
As crime-solving goes hi-tech, public defenders scramble to keep up (The Guardian)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
The future of crime data (Wiley Online Library)
Open and Shut? The Promise – and Problems – of Government Open Data Portals in Meeting Community Information Needs (UCLA Journal of Law and Technology)
Meet the Palm Beach Post’s crime data keeper (South Florida Media Network)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
U.S. Justice Dept takes a hard line on sentencing reform (Reuters)
Brittany Suszan 