Week of September 14, 2026

Richmond crisis team, funding for solving crimes and improving crime reporting in PA, cybercrime and video games, crime rate drop, violence against women, GA homicides drop, survivors guide to navigating image-based abuse, real time crime centers, precrimes and AI, FOIA costs, Stanford Prison Experiment, prison commutations, and more…

POLICE CONDUCT

Richmond’s crisis team has been 5 years in the making. Here’s how its first 120 days went (RichmondSide)

City settles lawsuit alleging falsified evidence by officer (Fox21)

Shapiro‑Davis Administration to Invest $3.5 Million for Police Departments to Solve More Crimes and Improve Crime Reporting (PA.gov)

CRIME RATE

Cybercrime and which Video Games? A Scoping Review (Springer Nature Link)

Crime rate in Minnesota dropping back to pre-pandemic levels (Minnesota Star Tribune)

Georgia homicides dropped 18%, but families still feel the pain of violence (WSB)

Nearly Nine out of 10 Women Murdered by Men are Killed by Someone They Know and Almost Two Thirds Die by Gunfire, New Violence Policy Center Study Finds (VPC.org)

A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work (Wired)

Call It What It Is: A Survivor’s Guide to Navigating Image-Based Abuse, from “Revenge Porn” to Deepfakes (New Book – Susanna Gibson, Preorder on Amazon)

What we know about 7 women linked to massive investigation connected to Philadelphia Olney house (ABC6)

National study finds violence affects millions across US with links to health, economic hardship (Tulane University)

CRIM-TECH

How Real-Time Crime Centers Help Police Respond Faster and Solve More Cases (State Tech Magazine)

Have You Protested AI Recently? Anthropic May Be Watching You for Precrimes A recent report alleges Anthropic is finding ways to monitor activists and surveil dissent. (CNET)

Huntsville police say they won’t release Flock records to the public, cost $1 million to produce (WAFF)

POLICE TRANSPARENCY

New Study in RI Finds Some of the Police and Flock Claims of Transparency Are False (GoLocalProv)

THE PRISON SYSTEM

Netflix Sets ‘New Stanford Prison Experiment’ Unscripted Series for October Release (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)

Advocates say Hochul is failing to keep promise on prison commutations (Queens Daily Eagle)

Indiana prison inmates are writing to not offend again (Fox59)