Police-involved shootings by NYPD officers have decreased 96% since 1972, dropping from 994 in that year to 35 in 2018, as reported here. More restrictive deadly force policies adopted in the 1970s had an early impact, while the sharp decline in violent crime since the 1990s has contributed. More recently, officials say enhanced training deserves credit…
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/shootings-by-nypd-continue-downward-trend/
Author: scott prell
Beyond Broken Windows: What Really Drives Urban Crime – CityLab
The premise of this article illustrates hot people and crime. It talks about hot people but I’m sure that these serious crimes occur in only a small percentage of city PLACES which generates the majority of crime.
KEEP in mind that .6% of a City of 258,612 people is 1552 SERIOUS offenders. That is not an insignificant number.
Maybe the perception of a dangerous neighborhood is because a part of the city has a concentration of the 1552 people.
OR maybe the 1552 people are distributed throughout the city creating 5 really bad people in each neighborhood.
Most serious urban violence is concentrated among less than 1 percent of a city’s population. So why are we still criminalizing whole areas?
— Read on www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/02/broken-windows-theory-policing-urban-violence-crime-data/583030/
Faster Care in Mass Shootings | EMS World
An Ohio service designs a new approach to get to casualties quickly and safely.
— Read on www.emsworld.com/article/1222346/faster-care-mass-shootings
Educators, officers focus on disrupting school-to-prison pipeline in Tulsa Public Schools forum on community policing | Crime & Courts | tulsaworld.com
See also https://futureofpolicing.blog/2019/03/03/civil-rights-and-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-in-oklahoma/
A panel discussed moderator queries and responded to written questions submitted by audience members for two hours during the “Community Conversation” event Thursday night at the TPS Education Service Center.
— Read on http://www.tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/live/
Civil Rights and the School- to-Prison Pipeline in Oklahoma
Where is the chapter for bad behavior and punishment?
www.usccr.gov/pubs/docs/Oklahoma_SchooltoPrisonPipeline_May2016.pdf
Utah moves to decertify Brigham Young University’s police department; school plans to appeal – The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah moves to decertify Brigham Young University’s police department; school plans to appeal – The Salt Lake Tribune
— Read on www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/02/26/utah-moves-decertify-byu/
Surrounded: Killings near school, and the students left behind – Los Angeles Times
A multiple part series on violence near school.
Even as crime has dropped in L.A., thousands of children grow up with a constant drumbeat of death.
— Read on www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-edu-school-safety/
Case Study of NYC Program Proves ‘No Need to Lock Up Kids for Public Safety’ | The Crime Report
Juvenile arrests in New York City were slashed in half since the city stopped sending young people to youth detention facilities far from their homes under the 2012 ‘Close to Home’ law, according to a case study released Wednesday.
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2019/02/27/case-study-of-nyc-program-proves-no-need-to-lock-up-kids-for-public-safety/
Here are more resources on Youth Detention including a link to the report discussed in the above article.
Office of Children and Family Services
Close to Home
https://ocfs.ny.gov/main/rehab/close_to_home/
http://www.cclp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Close-to-Home-Implementation-Report-Final.pdf
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/250142.pdf
Youth Detention
http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/06-11_rep_dangersofdetention_jj.pdf
Failure should not be an option | Prison Policy Initiative
Grading Parole Release Systems.
Report grading the fairness and effectiveness of the parole release systems of all 50 states
— Read on www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/grading_parole.html
Focus on wellness in Stockton | Modern Policing
This article describes Stockton, California PD’s wellness network aimed at helping officers deal with stress and trauma. The award-winning initiative includes a significant orientation for new recruits and proactive measures when officers encounter difficult situations in the field. The police department endured layoffs earlier in the decade while the city went through bankruptcy, adding to…
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/focus-on-wellness-in-stockton/
