Social workers on non-criminal police calls, increase in police salaries to combat crime, making sense of unofficial deadly force data, risks of police tech, police transparency, juvenile justice system, abuse in prison systems, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Bridgeport sending social workers on ‘non-criminal’ police calls (CT Post) see also: Sarasota County implements new system for non-emergency calls (Observer)
Can an increase in police salaries combat Memphis’ crime problems? (ABC24)
Making Sense of Unofficial Deadly Force Data (IACP)
CRIME RATE
Can a doorbell ring justify a ‘stand your ground’ shooting? (ABC7)
‘Gummies, candies, cookies’: State Crime Lab opens, sees critical levels of fentanyl in many items (ABC11)
Outgoing D.C. police chief on city’s rising crime rate: “A lot more guns are in communities now” (CBS News)
Mayor Scott gives update on Baltimore’s ‘Community Violence Intervention Ecosystem’ (Fox 45)
CRIM-TECH
Fact Versus Fiction: Experts on the Real Risks of Police Tech (GovTech)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
New DOJ online tool strives for more transparency, public data (WMTV)
Nassau police lack transparency, score near bottom of national survey: report (The Island 360)
Lack of transparency is typical of Trenton Police, administration (L.A. PARKER COLUMN) (The Trentonian)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
How the Juvenile System Forces Minors Into Unsafe Institutions (The Marshall Project)
After investigating abuse in prison system, senators propose new oversight law (ABC News)
Brittany Suszan 