Police accountability, federal monitoring of Oakland Police Department ends after 23 years, crime data, crime rate, stalking and dating violence, summit on victims of violent crimes, empathy and violence tendency, US homicides during COVID, domestic violence and gun deaths, rethinking license plate readers, using data to cut homicides, how criminal convictions deny the right to vote, and more…
POLICE CONDUCT
Johns Hopkins Police Accountability Board seeks applicants for 2027–28 term (JHU) see also: How are police officers held accountable? (Detroit News)
St. Paul mayor called herself ‘MILF’ and touched police chief’s thigh, sexual harassment suit claims (NBC News)
Durham’s new police chief has a message for gun violence-weary residents: ‘I’m listening’ (ABC 11)
Detroit dispatcher accused of warning family about FBI raid (Detroit Free Press)
Judge ends federal monitoring of Oakland Police Department after a record 23 years (CBS News)
Myrtle Beach police chief emphasizes transparency, community ties at National Night Out (WBTW)
CRIME RATE
Minnesota crime rates fall as public safety concerns persist (The Center Square)
Memphis Safe Task Force to mark one year, data shows plateau in crime rate (Action News 5)
How The Crime Data Battle Was Won (Jeff-alytics)
BC Reports Record Number of Stalking and Dating Violence Incidents, Increased Rape Cases in 2025 (The Heights)
Justice Department Holds the First Attorney General’s Summit on Victims of Violent Crime (Justice.gov)
Empathy and Violence Tendency: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Intelligence and Masculine Behaviour (Sage Journals)
Did Increased Lethality Drive the U.S. Homicide Surge During the COVID-19 Pandemic? (CRIMRXIV)
Police questioning can shape a sexual assault case. Their approach is often wrong (NPR)
Shine a Light on Domestic Violence Gun Deaths (Vital City)
What the Data Tell Us About Women and Guns (Vital City)
CRIM-TECH
New Hampshire Offers a Model for States Rethinking License Plate Readers (Governing)
Mark43 Acquires Public Safety Software Company ForceMetrics (GovTech)
Smart Cities Connect 2026: How Baltimore Is Using Data To Help Cut Homicides (StateTech Magazine)
POLICE TRANSPARENCY
TRANSPARENCY The story why Columbus suspended Flock cameras (Press Reader)
‘Loophole’: City councilors fight for greater oversight into Boston police technology, surveillance (Boston 25 News)
THE PRISON SYSTEM
‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute woman after 2 lethal injections (NBC News)
Women Silenced at the Polls: How Criminal Convictions Deny the Right to Vote (The Sentencing Project)
