No warrant DNA collection, increased policing to fight crime, cannabis legalization associated with lower crime rates, predicting crime, cameras and AI surveillance, automated police report drafting, balancing public safety and privacy, license plate readers, police transparency, body cam footage, corrections officer turned drug smuggler, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Under no-warrant DNA collection, any Georgian’s genetic data could end up in police custody (Georgia Recorder)
These Fort Worth neighborhoods will see increased policing to fight violent crime (Fort Worth Star Telegram)
Police suspend using Tri-City Flock cameras because of new WA law (Tri-City Herald)
CRIME RATE
Most Crime Victims Know Their Offenders, Per The FBI (Law Enforcement Today)
Analysis: Cannabis Legalization Laws Associated With Lower Crime Rates (NORML.org)
How Camden, N.J., Cut Its Murder Rate to a 40-Year Low (NY Times)
Shootings up 78% in Chicago in one week, as city suffers two-month murder surge (NBC Chicago)
Predicting crime: Limits of criminometrics in police practice (Sage Journals)
New federal data reinforces nationwide drop in crime since pandemic peak (Stateline)
CRIM-TECH
Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms (The Conversation)
Automated Police Report Drafting (Center for Democracy and Technology)
Urban theft prediction via LLM-empowered spatiotemporal transformer (Scientific Reports)
Balancing public safety and privacy in use of license plate recognition (MassLive)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
DC Council overrides Mayor Bowser’s veto of FAAR Act on police transparency (WJLA)
Georgia bill could limit access to police body cam, mugshots as transparency debate grows (CBS News)
Georgia taxpayers paid for greater visibility into policing. Now lawmakers want to block their view (Georgia Recorder)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
How a former Ohio corrections officer became a prison drug smuggler (The Columbus Dispatch)
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