Week of December 15, 2025

DC chief manipulated crime data, active warrant arrest scam, school shootings lasting impact, HI gun deaths, underreported campus sexual assaults, gunshot detection, AI used to improve police data, drones as first responders, surveillance camera plan, police transparency, license plate readers, drone transparency, prison health worker vacancies, and more…

POLICE CONDUCT

AV Remarks on Policing for Preventing and Solving Crime Before the Washington State House of Representatives’ Community Safety Committee, December 4, 2025 (Arnold Ventures)

House Oversight Committee report alleges DC police chief manipulated crime data (CNN)

CRIME RATE

Get the Facts: Is Venezuela a primary drug trafficker to the United States? (WCVB)

No, you don’t have an active warrant for your arrest. How to avoid scams (The Columbus Dispatch)

School Shootings and Their Lasting Impact: A Review of the Educational, Mental Health, and Socioeconomic Consequences for U.S. Students (Scientific Research)

Hawai‘i Gun Deaths: Amid Uptick, Leaders Take Debate Underground (Honolulu Civil Beat)

Over nearly a decade, the State College Police Department underreported hundreds of rapes in public data, a Spotlight PA investigation found, masking the true extent of the crime in the community surrounding Penn State. (Spotlight PA)

CRIM-TECH

Detroit Police officials overseeing gunshot sensors don’t know their locations — and say that’s fine (Michigan Advance)

Improving police recorded crime data for domestic violence and abuse through natural language processing (PubMed)

Denver police quietly launch drones as first-responders in program to fight crime from the sky (Denver 7)

Oakland approves $2M surveillance camera plan (The Oaklandside)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Residents Request Transparency and Law on City Cooperation with ICE (Peekskill Herald)

Audit calls for more transparency in how Salt Lake County DA makes decisions (KSL News Radio)

License plate cameras grow across Iowa, but transparency varies (Axios Des Moines)

Droning on. Chicagoland law enforcement agencies fly surveillance drones outside the public eye. (Chicago Reader)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Prison health workers are among the best-paid public employees. Why are so many jobs vacant? (CalMatters)