Week of April 21, 2025

State takes control of St. Louis police department, tough on crime policies, officer recruitment, cuts to KC Sheriff, protecting survivors of domestic abuse, cracking down on violent crime, campus crime, cybercrime partnership, complaints against police, citizen review board transparency, bottlenecks in criminal court system, AZ prison closures, and more…

POLICE CONDUCT

St. Louis Community Outraged as State Takes Control of Police Department (Vanguard News Group)

JSO allows officers to carry personal Staccato handguns instead of department-issued Glocks Safety analyst sees no issue with JSO approving use of different gun, says it can ‘boost confidence, effectiveness’ (News4Jax)

DOD stops offering rape kits to most overseas civilian workers (Military Times)

D.C. Public Safety Executive Order Revives Failed “Tough-on-Crime” Policies, Ignores Proven Solutions (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

Memphis Shelby Crime Commission aims to recruit officers, deter crime (WREG)

Cuts to KC Sheriff’s Office will impact rural areas like the Valley (Snoqualmie Valley Record)

CRIME RATE

Georgia Moves to Protect Survivors of Domestic Abuse (Governing)

Report Calls for Creation of National Information Clearinghouse for Cybercrime Data; Urges FBI to Adopt New System for Categorizing Cybercrimes (National Academies)

Michigan lawmakers unveil police funding plan to crackdown on violent crime (WILX)

How Police Guns End Up in the Hands of Criminals (Reveal News)

Crime is Plummeting in San Francisco. Policy Changes Have Played a Role, Some Experts Say. (California City News)

Pritzker, Johnson applaud Peacekeepers violence prevention program as crime drops in Chicago (The Triibe)

Problematic alcohol behaviors and sexual assault on college campuses: How are student reports and institution-reported crime data related? (PubMed)

CRIM-TECH

University of Scranton, DA’s office in new cybercrime partnership (The Times-Tribune)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

‘Code of Conduct’ aims to build trust, transparency between sheriff’s deputies and community members (Toledo Blade)

Unfounded complaints against police, jailers would be secret in Texas. Is that OK? (Union Bulletin)

APD chief recommits to transparency with Atlanta Citizen Review Board investigations (WSBTV)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Former DA wants to uncover ‘bottlenecks’ in Criminal Court system (Daily Memphian)

Killing spree at Tucson prison could have been prevented, critics say (AZ Central)

Several of Arizona’s prisons closed due to uptick in inmate violence incidents (ABC15)