Police encryption and access to encrypted data, reporting police misconduct, high-speed police chases, surveillance expansion, US crime data, DOJ seeks input on AI use, machine learning flags issues with police forces sooner, AI assessing traffic stops, cyber security training, body cam transparency, forensic DNA lab transparency, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Police Chiefs Call for Solutions to Access Encrypted Data in Serious Crime Cases (The Hacker News)
Myrtle Beach police fully encrypts scanner traffic, drawing transparency concerns (WMBF)
Colorado law enforcement groups object to bill requiring officers to report colleagues’ alleged misconduct (Colorado Politics)
In reversal, more areas allow high-speed police chases (The Mercury News)
Firing the police chief, probing his complaints two resolutions facing Mobile City Council (NBC15)
Surveillance expansion threatens press freedom – and everyone else’s (Freedom of the Press Foundation)
34 charges filed as Houston PD wraps up review of suspended sex assault cases (Houston Public Media)
CRIME RATE
What the data says about crime in the U.S. (Pew Research)
The Curious Case of Greenwood, South Carolina (Jeff-Alytics)
Fresno PD encourages crime victims to reach out, report crimes (YourCentralValley.com)
Philadelphians Don’t Want to Clean Up Blood After a Shooting. Help is Coming Soon. (TheTrace.org)
CRIM-TECH
DOJ seeks public input on AI use in criminal justice system (FedScoop)
Cops Are Now Using AI to Generate Police Reports (Gizmodo)
Machine learning helps flag issues with police forces sooner (Gov.UK)
Could AI Assess Connecticut State Trooper Traffic Stops? (GovTech)
MSU receiving $1 million in federal grants for cyber security training (WILX)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Alabama lawmakers again thwart bill to make police bodycam video available to the public (NBC15)
To build trust, forensic DNA labs must also embrace transparency (Police1)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Lawmakers seek more answers after prison education audit (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Second Chance Month: ‘I always thought I would die in prison’ (Brainerd Dispatch)
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