Category: CRJ301 Police Mgt

Civil rights violations data causes bad predictive policing

A new report investigates how 13 jurisdictions, including Chicago and New Orleans, were feeding systems data sullied by “unconstitutional and racially biased stops, searches, and arrests.”

— Read on www.fastcompany.com/90312369/how-dirty-data-from-civil-rights-violations-leads-to-bad-predictive-policing

The report can be accessed HERE

Younger Americans Much More Likely to Have Been Arrested Than Previous Generations; Increase Is Largest Among Whites and Women | RAND

Americans under the age of 26 are much more likely to be arrested than Americans born in previous decades, with the increase in arrest rates occurring most rapidly among white Americans and women. The rising rate of arrests and convictions is associated with a variety of negative ramifications.
— Read on www.rand.org/news/press/2019/02/25.html

The study can be accessed HERE

John Jay College on Vimeo

Video from 2 symposiums:

Crime in America and The Hidden Costs of the Criminal Justice System.

Day 1 of the Guggenheim Symposium

0:57 minute mark criminogenic effect of prison

0:59 min Research on mass incarceration

1:09 h:m prison doesn’t work

1:26 h:m restorative justice – can it restore and fix fear?

3:08 h:m violence in America

5:40 h:m mass shooting** excellent for CRJ-302

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— Read on vimeo.com/johnjaycollege/videos

Shootings by NYPD continue downward trend | Modern Policing

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/

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/

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/

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/