Houston police chief apologizes for 264K suspended incident reports

An internal review revealed that 264,000 criminal incident reports were suspended by Houston police due to a lack of personnel.
— Read on www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/08/houston-police-chief-264k-suspended-reports/72889859007/

The People’s Report 2024: Driving While BIPOC

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Oakland’s “Doom Loop” | City Journal

A conversation with Seneca Scott on the Bay Area city’s interlinked public safety and budget crises
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/oaklands-doom-loop

Sourcebook 2023 | United States Sentencing Commission

Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics
— Read on www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook-2023

Behind the Badge: Revealing Escalating Mental Health Injuries Among RCMP Officers

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Juvenile Court Statistics 2021

Juvenile Court Statistics 2021 draws on data from the National Juvenile Court Data Archive (Archive) to profile 437,300 delinquency cases and 51,500 petitioned status offense cases handled in 2021 by U.S. courts with juvenile jurisdiction. The report also tracks trends in delinquency and petitioned status cases between 2005 and 2021. The data used in this report were contributed to the Archive by nearly 2,400 courts with jurisdiction over 83% of the juvenile population in 2021.
— Read on www.ncjj.org/Publication/Juvenile-Court-Statistics-2021.aspx

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH POLICE AND THE POLICING VIEWS OF DETROIT RESIDENTS (2020)

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detroitsurvey.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Personal-Experiences-with-Police-and-the-Policing-Views-of-Detroit-Residents-2020.pdf

Police pullback linked to increases in crime

When police pull back, crime accelerates. But policing alone is no cure-all. That’s the takeaway from a new Denver-area study co-authored by researchers at CU Boulder and collaborators in Nebraska, Michigan, and South Carolina.
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-02-police-pullback-linked-crime.html

NOTE: In the article there is a like to the Academic Article which at the time of this post was available “free access”.

Vital City | New York’s Iron Pipeline Problem

Crime trends are deeply linked to out-of-state gun purchases.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new-yorks-iron-pipeline-problem

POLICE STAFFING, EXPENDITURES, AND WORKLOAD: STAFFING REDUCTIONS HAVE IMPACTED RESPONSE TIMES AND LED TO HIGH OVERTIME COSTS

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