Tag: Crime

LAPD audit reveals dangers of high-tech policing | | wfsb.com

Recently predictive police has come under fire about its accurate and valid predictive powers. Below is a like to a news report on an internal review of LAPD predictive policing.

An audit of the Los Angeles police department is raising questions about new technologies law enforcement is using nationwide with little oversight.
— Read on www.wfsb.com/content/tncms/live/

The LAPD document can be accessed HERE

Death Penalty ‘Another Failed Big Government Program’:  Conservative | The Crime Report

California has spent $4 billion on the death penalty since it was reinstated  in 1978. But its violent crime rate outpaces the national average, writes a leading conservative who welcomes the moratorium announced this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2019/03/14/death-penalty-another-failed-big-government-program-ca-conservative/

Funding of Rape-Kit Testing Leads to 1,000 Arrests | The Crime Report

Languishing evidence in 100,000 sexual assault cases around the U.S. has been sent for DNA testing with money from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance and federal authorities, leading to more than 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three years. Another 155,000 or more sex assault evidence kits await testing,
— Read on thecrimereport.org/2019/03/12/funding-of-rape-kit-testing-leads-to-1000-arrests/

See also Cyrus Vance report

Integrated Health Care and Criminal Justice Data: Lessons from Camden, New Jersey | Harvard Kennedy School

Integrated Health Care and Criminal Justice Data — Viewing the Intersection of Public Safety, Public Health, and Public Policy Through a New Lens: Lessons from Camden, New Jersey

April 5, 2018Authors: Anne Milgram, Jeffrey Brenner, Dawn Wiest, Virginia Bersch, and Aaron Truchil
— Read on www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener/programs/criminaljustice/research-publications/executive-session-on-community-corrections/publications/integrated-health-care-and-criminal-justice-data

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

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/