Week of August 31, 2026

Youth curfew, real-time crime alerts for daycares, domestic violence call responses, crime declines, Norfolk homicide jump, civilianized safety practitioners, DC National Guard missing from crime data, domestic violence’s hidden homicides, public drone dashboard in New Orleans, Fort Wayne PD asks for feedback on its transparency, police transparency, rehabilitation in prison, and more…

POLICE CONDUCT

Greensboro City Council, police review youth curfew proposal, seek more crime data (ABC 45)

PBSO to register every county daycare for AWARE real-time crime alerts (CBS 12)

Montgomery mayor cites crime data decline, bond concerns at monthly briefing (WSFA)

SC ranks among top states for domestic violence. How do officers respond to these dangerous calls? (The Post and Courier)

CRIME RATE

Overall number of hate crimes declines, but communities continue to be targeted (Southern Poverty Law Center)

Who Gets Credit for the Drop in Crime? Whoever Claims It. (Governing)

Norfolk homicides jump 65% for first half of 2026 (The Virginian-Pilot)

Civilianized safety practitioners reduce crime and disorder: Evidence from a quasiexperimental evaluation in San Francisco (Oxford Academic) see also An independent study from Stanford credits Urban Alchemy with reducing crime by 20% (San Francisco Standard)

DC National Guard marks one year on mission, points to crime trends, emergency responses (WTOP) see also: A year into its D.C. deployment, the National Guard is largely missing from crime data (WAMU)

States Take Aim at Domestic Violence’s ‘Hidden Homicides’ (Governing)

Why is Crime Falling? The Answers Aren’t Simple. (The Marshall Project)

Making children’s voices count: a new approach to the crime survey (Office for National Statistics UK)

CRIM-TECH

NOPD Launches Public Drone Dashboard as Department Prepares for DFR (NOPD News)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

Councilmembers Call for a Centralized Public Data Dashboard (SA.gov)

Fort Wayne Police Departments asks for community feedback on its transparency (The Journal Gazette)

Greater Transparency Brought Change to Police Departments—And Then a Reversal (Yale Insights)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

She made a fatal choice at 22. Now she’s in prison, figuring herself out one day at a time Grace Coleman caused a terrible crime and realized she needed help to rebuild herself. She’s finding it in a California prison. (Cal Matters)