Massachusetts releases officer disciplinary records, relationship between food insecurity and family violence, retail theft concerns and cracking down, measuring anti crime efforts, cost of body cams, DNA processing, criminal justice data tools, holistic alternatives to criminal justice, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Mass. police oversight board releases 1000s of officer disciplinary records (MassLive)
East Bay police officers arrested in FBI raid (NBC Bay Area)
Embodying Evidence to Action: Tracking the Impact of Three Key NIJ Research Investments (NIJ)
CRIME RATE
Examining the Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Family Violence: a Systematic Narrative Review (Springer Link)
Retail theft: Walmart, Home Depot, Target detail ‘unacceptable amount’ of crime (Yahoo!Finance) see also: San Francisco ‘Crime Shadow’ Report Predicts the Next Commercial Real Estate Collapses (The San Francisco Standard) and also: Retailers are shaping a wave of laws to crack down on organized theft — here’s how they do it (CNBC)
For 30 years, a Jackson County tax has funded anti-crime efforts. Its success is hard to measure (KCUR)
CRIM-TECH
Think the Police Should Wear Body Cameras? That Will Cost Taxpayers Extra. (NYTimes)
Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted out (The Intercept)
Wisconsin’s crime labs are processing DNA evidence faster, while toxicology turnaround times lagged (WPR.org)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Alabama Open Records Law fails to address key issues, open-government advocates say (Opelika-Auburn News)
Rochester nonprofit to release criminal justice data tool (NY Daily Record)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Tribal courts across the country are expanding holistic alternatives to the criminal justice system (AP News)
Sentenced to Life as Boys, They Made Their Case for Release (NYTimes)
Brittany Suszan 