All about Policing with a sprinkle of Criminal Justice – written by a Secret Contrarian
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
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.”
The report can be accessed HERE
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/
Predictive Policing and the Threat to Our Rights collates the results of 90 Freedom of Information requests sent to every force in the UK, laying bare the full extent of biased ‘predictive policing’ for the first time – and how it threatens everyone’s rights and freedoms.
— Read on www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/policy/report-policing-machine
You can get a copy of the report HERE
Most Colorado Springs residents surveyed are satisfied with their police force.
— Read on gazette.com/content/tncms/live/
The survey can be seen HERE
I like it when police departments share their policing plan. Others can use it as an example. In the article there is also a link to 2018 statistics.
Dallas City Council members shared concerns Monday about the 2019 crime fighting plan presented by Police Chief Renee Hall to the Council Public Safety Committee.
— Read on www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/City-Council-Push-Back-on-DPD-Plan-for-2019-504998482.html
The 2019 report can be found HERE
This article analyzes city clearance rates for murders and shootings. One key finding is a drop from 65% to 42% since the 1980s in the clearance rate for black and Hispanic victims killed by guns — aside from this category, murder clearance rates have actually improved. Also, non-firearm homicides, which are more likely to yield…
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/murder-clearance-rates-have-actually-improved-with-one-big-exception/
Failing conventionally on gun violence reduction – Jerry Ratcliffe
— Read on www.jratcliffe.net/blog/failing-conventionally-on-gun-violence-reduction/
Dr. Ratcliffe’s article is response to Philadelphia’s publication “Roadmap to Safer Communities” which can be accessed by the link below.
I love it when a police department or a municipality releases a plan. Especially a crime fighting plan. It allows others to see what others are doing and then barrow (steal) for it or use it to build something new.
https://www.phila.gov/media/20190116150530/The-Philadelphia-Roadmap-to-Safer-Communities.pdf
This podcast takes a look at data and police use of force.
The author has one of the BEST commentaries on data and analysis of police use of force and bias and where the mews media fails interpreting police contact data.
QPP Extra – Radiolab Got It Wrong – Quality Policing Podcast
— Read on qualitypolicing.com/qpp-extra-radiolab-got-it-wrong/
https://futureofpolicing.blog/2019/01/10/police-shootings-report-by-tampa-bay-times-and-radiolab/
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