Author Archives: SpotCrime

Public safety investment, shootings and guns on campus, gun crimes, geography of crime, cyber threats to small businesses, face recognition technology, high-tech crime-fighting plans, Civilian Complaint Review Board to receive access to body cam footage, public records in the criminal justice system, mandatory supervised release, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Hochul details crime data, highlights needContinue reading “Week of April 3, 2023”

Police staffing shortages and woes, misconduct settlements, access to mental health, gun violence data ‘unattainable’, gun violence trends, retail crime, Broken Windows Theory, procurement issues lead to crime lab backlog, data sharing, life after prison, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Baltimore County reports one set of sexual assault data to the FBI. They tell the publicContinue reading “Week of March 20, 2023”

Underfunding the police, smart policing grant program, pushing cities out of law enforcement, police misconduct consequences, broken windows theory, hate crimes jumped in 2021, collaboration in the justice system, body cams, AI may flag parents with disabilities, police transparency, mass incarceration, and more… POLICE CONDUCT We’re Underfunding the Police (The Atlantic) Justice launches $8M smart policingContinue reading “Week of March 13, 2023”

Gun violence prevention programs, police accountability, FBI gun seizures, data-driven approach to targeting gun violence, domestic violence, police surveillance, addressing violent crime, predictive policing, digital data used by police, government open data portals, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Mayor Duggan to launch gun violence prevention program at State of the City (Detroit Free Press) Mayor to Mayor:Continue reading “Week of March 6, 2023”

Data driven policing, cracking down on crime hotspots, protecting against the Ferguson Effect, how social media shapes perception about crime, the science behind lower crime trends, gun violence, children and violence, state law enforcement data practices, body cam footage, algorithms and bias in criminal justice, and more… POLICE CONDUCT New Indiana State Police squad usingContinue reading “Week of February 27, 2023”

Shielding police, lower murder rate with more cops, national crime data reporting needs improvement, ATF gun crime report, school shooting data, violent crime and youth, corporate white collar prosecutions at all time low, streamlining sharing of criminal justice data, impact of COVID on arrests, observing bail review hearings, and more…  POLICE CONDUCT In Shielded, JoannaContinue reading “Week of February 13, 2023”

Using data for more equitable policing, police misconduct whistleblowers, police reforms, filming cops is protected by the fourth amendment, data-driven approach to tackle crime, juvenile violent crime, crime-fighting software illegal in Germany, improving criminal justice data collection, majority criminal cases end in plea bargains, and more… POLICE CONDUCT The Biden administration wants to know howContinue reading “Week of February 20, 2023”

Professionalize the police, dissolution of crime solutions committee, gun violence an emergency, ‘epidemic’ of stolen guns, ghost gun increase, using AI to analyze body cam footage, scraping government websites, relational costs of wrongful convictions, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Professionalize the police. An obvious major reform needs more attention than it’s getting. (Noahpinion) Bellevue police chief saysContinue reading “Week of February 6, 2023”

Police staffing, police training, gun violence across the US, gun violence and mental illness, effectiveness of community based solutions, politics of police statistics, body cam tech ‘trash’, gun fire detection system, NYPD Citizen-like app, police data collection is difficult, Louisiana Sheriff’s violating public record laws, crime data systems in CA, donating organs for shorter prisonContinue reading “Week of January 30, 2023”

FBI crime stats reporting problem, hate crime reporting and legislation, cost of police misconduct, gun policies that really work, technology that keeps tripping up criminals, scraping court records protected by first amendment, police open crime data websites, juvenile diversion programs working, and more… POLICE CONDUCT The Monterey Park shooting exposes a major problem with crimeContinue reading “Week of January 23, 2023”