Complaints against officers, New Orleans ending federal oversight, DOJ reforms in Minneapolis, crime rate falling, shooting data, anti-hazing laws, homicides, dispatch system glitch, police surveillance cameras, charging for body cam video, youth charged as adults, expungement, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
New bill would seal unproven complaints against officers (City & State New York)
New Orleans Police can begin the process of ending federal oversight (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Minneapolis, DOJ agree on police reforms in wake of George Floyd murder (WGLT)
CRIME RATE
Crime Is Falling. Why Don’t Americans Believe It? (Governing)
The Disappearing American Bank Robbery (Jeff-alytics)
What We Learned From Analyzing 10 Years of Shooting Data (The Trace)
A vanishingly small number of violent sex crimes end in conviction, NBC News investigation shows (NBC Philadelphia)
The partisanship of mayors has no detectable effect on police spending, police employment, crime, or arrests (Science Advances)
Anti-hazing organizations say the new federal law will add transparency to hazing incidents (KCRG)
Why did U.S. homicides spike in 2020 and then decline rapidly in 2023 and 2024? (Brookings.edu)
CRIM-TECH
L.A. County Sheriff’s Dispatch System Crashes Due to Glitch (GovTech)
Police cameras are coming to Columbia. Do they really reduce crime? (Columbia Missourian)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Tulsa police won’t share the locations of more than 200 surveillance cameras (The Frontier)
How Ohio police justify charging hundreds of dollars for bodycam video (News 5 Cleveland)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
A Long-Delayed Look at Youth Charged as Adults (The Imprint)
Expungement: Access to Justice or Just More Bureaucracy? A Comparison Among the States (Lincoln Memorial University)
Why a Pennsylvania Prison Looked to Scandinavia for Inspiration (Governing)
Brittany Suszan 