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Police data, military policing, relationship between income and crime, murder rate is falling, gun violence reduction plans, AI and police forces, police data transparency, license plate readers, drones as first responders, transformative juvenile justice, bond data dashboard, and more… POLICE CONDUCT APD Uses Data to Drive Policework (Alameda Post) Researchers find little evidence military policing reducesContinue reading “Week of June 5, 2023”

NJ police fail to follow citizen complaint law, misconduct records published, dispatcher shortages, mental health related 911 calls, large portion of crimes go unsolved in CA, cracking down on gun crimes, tracking phones without a warrant, youth justice, and more… POLICE CONDUCT 80 NJ Police Departments Fail To Follow Citizen Complaint Law: Report (Patch)  Attorney GeneralContinue reading “Week of May 15, 2023”

Mental health specialists during emergencies, deadly year for WI police, why are there mass killings, crime trends, hacking crime wave, cities dealing with ransomware attacks, combating the Mississippi crime rate, DNA ‘lab in a box’, missing body cam video, erasing ‘trail penalty’, and more… POLICE CONDUCT N.J. advocates ‘encouraged’ by recent analysis of program thatContinue reading “Week of May 8, 2023”

Crime sparks change in policing in DC, LA police pursuits, online crime reporting, gun stolen from cars every 36 hours in 2022 in Henrico County, preventing gun violence, new CrimeLocal app, crime in summer, gun deaths data, AirTags to fight car thefts, police transparency, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Rise in overall crime sparks change inContinue reading “Week of May 1, 2023”

Social workers on non-criminal police calls, increase in police salaries to combat crime, making sense of unofficial deadly force data, risks of police tech, police transparency, juvenile justice system, abuse in prison systems, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Bridgeport sending social workers on ‘non-criminal’ police calls (CT Post) see also: Sarasota County implements new system for non-emergency calls (Observer)Continue reading “Week of April 24, 2023”

Misleading crime stats,  mental health calls response, violence intervention programs, effects of increased police presence on perceptions of arrest risk, surveillance tools in your city, AI security tech, OH mayors launch data innovation, re-offending, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Antioch police chief assures residents there will be no gaps in service (The Mercury News) McCurtain County residentsContinue reading “Week of April 17, 2023”

Encrypted radios, mental health calls for service, mental health of criminal justice professionals, youth gun deaths and gun violence on the rise, policing software blamed for errors, tighter drug laws could cause unsustainable workload, police database to fight gun crimes, debtors prison, and more… POLICE CONDUCT Hearing sirens? Finding out why could get harder asContinue reading “Week of April 9, 2023”

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”