Fake robberies in visa fraud scheme, managing mental health crises, digital dragnets, algorithmic bias in predictive policing, mass surveillance, license plate readers and privacy laws, AI to help solve cold cases, AI police radio app causes panic, body cam audit logs, FOIA, police transparency laws, geofencing warrants, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Cambridge Police Commissioner Christine Elow to Retire After More Than 30 years With Department (CambridgeMA.gov)
Police Chiefs Allegedly Faked Robberies in $5,000-a-Pop Visa Fraud Scheme (The Wall Street Journal)
Should police be turning up at all? Managing mental health crises in an English Constabulary under the Right Care, Right Person framework (Taylor and Francis Online)
Seaford police chief presents the department’s new strategic plan (Delaware Public Media)
Ethics complaint raises serious allegations against Miami Police Chief Manny Morales (Florida Politics)
CRIME RATE
Supreme Court weighs phone searches to find criminals amid complaints of ‘digital dragnets’ (LATimes)
Algorithmic Bias and the Erosion of Procedural Fairness in Predictive Policing (Human Rights Research Center)
CRIM-TECH
US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices (The Conversation)
AI Crime App Causes School Shooting Panic (OldManTrench.com)
Renton police turn Flock cameras back on after updates to comply with privacy law (KOMO)
I Spent 20 Years at the FBI Chasing These Criminals. Here’s What Needs to Change. (halcyon.ai)
From floppy discs to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion‑dollar industry (The Conversation)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
FOIC: Audit log reports aren’t a ‘new record’ under FOIA (Inside Investigator)
“No Secret Police Act” Struck Down – For Now California is currently in the middle of a legal fight over a law meant to increase transparency in law enforcement. (Los Angeles Magazine)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
Court overturns murder conviction after finding ‘geofence’ warrant too broad (MPR News)
How a Brazilian Prison Gang Became a Global Cocaine Power (Wall Street Journal)
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