Category: CRJ302 Community & CJ

Policing and artificial intelligence – The Police Foundation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the work of the police. This report looks at how AI is currently being used by UK policing and explores some of the ways it might be used in the future.

The report, produced in partnership with Forensic Analytics Ltd, identifies eight challenges for the more widespread use of AI for policing purposes. It makes a number of recommendations for policymakers and police leaders intended to help policing make the most of the AI revolution, while maintaining public trust and confidence and protecting rights and freedoms.
— Read on www.police-foundation.org.uk/publication/policing-and-artificial-intelligence/

The Liar’s Dividend: Can Politicians Claim Misinformation to Evade Accountability? | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Checkout this article. It sounds interesting. Is there a benefit to lying???

The Liar’s Dividend: Can Politicians Claim Misinformation to Evade Accountability? – Volume 119 Issue 1
— Read on www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/liars-dividend-can-politicians-claim-misinformation-to-evade-accountability/687FEE54DBD7ED0C96D72B26606AA073

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno urges DOJ to review police consent decrees in Cleveland and other cities – cleveland.com

WASHINGTON, D. C. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno wants the U.S. Department of Justice to re-examine consent decrees that it has reached over the years to reform police practices in Cleveland and other cities.

The freshman Westlake Republican is sending a letter to newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi that seeks her views on voluntarily dismissing consent decrees with state and local governments, citing a U.S. Supreme Court precedent on enforcement of consent decrees.
— Read on www.cleveland.com/news/2025/02/us-sen-bernie-moreno-urges-doj-to-review-police-consent-decree-in-cleveland-and-other-cities.html

Minneapolis MN police department / Monitor

On February 2, 2024, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights and the City of Minneapolis (City) announced that Effective Law Enforcement for Allwas selected as the monitoring team for the state court enforceable agreement. 

The monitoring team plays an important role in supporting and holding the City and Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) accountable to address race-based policing by strengthening public safety.
— Read on mn.gov/mdhr/mpd/monitor/

Read the inaugural report HERE

A Matter of Life: The Scope and Impact of Life and Long Term Imprisonment in the United States – The Sentencing Project

Overview

In the United States, the federal government and every state enforces sentencing laws that incarcerate people for lengths that will exceed, or likely exceed, the span of a person’s natural life. In 2024, almost 200,000 people, or one in six people in prison, were serving life sentences.1 The criminal legal system’s dependence on life sentences disregards research showing that extreme sentences are not an effective public safety solution.

This report represents The Sentencing Project’s sixth national census of people serving life sentences, which includes life with the possibility of parole; life without the possibility of parole; and virtual life sentences (sentences reaching 50 years or longer). The report finds more people were serving life without parole (LWOP) in 2024 than ever before: 56,245 people were serving this “death by incarceration” sentence, a 68% increase since 2003. While the total number of people serving life sentences decreased 4% from 2020 to 2024, this decline trails the 13% downsizing of the total prison population. Moreover, nearly half the states had more people serving a life sentence in 2024 than in 2020.
— Read on www.sentencingproject.org/reports/a-matter-of-life-the-scope-and-impact-of-life-and-long-term-imprisonment-in-the-united-states/