Call center flooded with calls, civilian review boards, police workforce and crime problems, juvenile crime, gun violence data tracker, criminalizing homelessness, domestic violence, shrink reports, victim accounts of non-reporting, tech facilitated abuse, police transparency, police tech race, surveillance cameras, Florida prisons during Hurricane Milton, rising heat and health risks in prison, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Safety expert: Montgomery Co. 911 call center ‘chronically understaffed’ and flooded with calls (WTOP)
Phoenix appoints 9 members to civilian review board to oversee police misconduct investigations (KTAR)
Size isn’t everything: Understanding the relationship between police workforce and crime problems (CRIMRXIV)
Inside the Federal Protective Service, Homeland Security’s Domestic Police Force (Brennan Center for Justice)
North Carolina Police Take New Approach to Juvenile Crime (GovTech)
CRIME RATE
How ‘Human Error’ Likely Increased the Reported US Violent Crime Rate in 2023 (Jeff-alytics)
Why Grand Prairie guns keep turning up at crime scenes in Mexico (Texas Metro News)
Report finds 85 domestic violence deaths in Wisconsin in 2023 (Wisconsin Examiner)
After more than 3 decades, NRF won’t publish its annual shrink report this year (Retail Dive)
Criminalizing Homelessness Can Lead to More Crime (Governing)
#WhyIDidntReport: Exploring victim accounts of non-reporting (Sage Journals)
Technology-Facilitated Abuse Among College Students: Prevalence and Consequences, and Examinations by Gender and Sexual Identity (Sage Journals)
CRIM-TECH
Seattle to add surveillance cameras to crime-fighting efforts in 3 neighborhoods (KUOW)
Veritone Cozies Up to Axon and Milestone in Police Tech Race (GovTech)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Gun violence data tracker launched to provide transparency for Baltimore communities (CBS News)
Chief’s Advisory Panel pushes for police transparency (ABC 6)
Officials parse proposed Austin police contract’s cost, transparency provisions (Community Impact)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Caught in the Storm: How Florida Prisons and Jails Are Responding to Hurricane Milton (The Appeal)
A new study connects rising heat and health risks inside U.S. prisons, including Wisconsin (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Brittany Suszan 