Police oversight, officer resilience, misconduct data, gun violence, green space and crime, ADHD and criminality, predictive policing, drones as first responders, police transparency, police hiring and crime, juvenile justice programs, states spending on prisoners, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Problems continue to plague the Minneapolis Community Commission on Police Oversight (MinnPost) see also: Speaking of Reform: Experimental Insights into Influencing Police Executives’ Perspectives on Civilian Oversight (CRIMRXIV)
U.S. Law Enforcement Officers’ Stress, Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, and Resilience: A National Sample (Sage Journals)
Crime and Punishment Can American policing be fixed? (Harper’s Magazine)
Power Check: Missing police misconduct data (Axios)
House passes Law Enforcement Officers’ Due Process, Accountability and Transparency Act (Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly)
CRIME RATE
Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime (Wiley Online Library)
IMPD depending on data to mark high-crime neighborhoods (Fox59)
Guns and Intimate Violence Guns don’t need to be fired to endanger. (Psychology Today)
States with Weak Gun Laws and Higher Gun Ownership Have Highest Gun Death Rates in the Nation, New Data for 2022 Confirm (violence Policy Center)
Does pharmacological treatment of ADHD reduce criminality? (Elsevier)
Guns are being stolen from cars at triple the rate they were 10 years ago, a report finds (AP News)
DiCiccio blames police hiring lag for increase in Phoenix crime (Ahwatukee Foothills News)
Department of Defense Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military (Defense.gov)
CRIM-TECH
The Ethics of Predictive Policing: Where Data Science Meets Civil Liberties (Hackernoon)
NYPD to start using drones as ‘first responders’ on 911 calls (The Spokesman Review)
ShotSpotter Showdown Set Amid Fierce Debate Over Value of Gunshot Detection System (WTTW)
RapidSOS Doubles Down on AI and Emergency Data Integration (GovTech)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Concerns remain over OPRA bill’s effect on police accountability (NJ Spotlight News)
Ill. Police Department Releasing Survey Results as Part of Transparency Push (Officer.com)
North Texas police chief’s ‘Cook’ book outlines best media practices for police transparency (Yahoo! News)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
A Clean Slate—to What Effect? Policies that scrub former offenders’ criminal histories show little effect on employment. (City Journal)
How much do states spend on prisoners? (USA Facts)
Brittany Suszan 