Accountable Now

Here is an interesting database for tracking police use of force.

Accountable Now collects data on police behavior from United States law enforcement agencies to share the truth about how often police use force.
— Read on www.accountablenow.com/

Why Voters Rejected Plans to Replace the Minneapolis Police Department – and What’s Next for Policing Reform

Minneapolis residents voted 56 percent to 44 percent against an amendment that would have transformed the city’s police. The reasons they did so are complicated, an expert writes.
— Read on www.governing.com/next/voters-rejected-replace-the-minneapolis-police-policing-reform

The Cost of Crime – 2

Hidden in Plain Sight: What Cost-of-Crime Research Can Tell Us About Investing in Police

Many state and local governments are facing significant fiscal challenges, forcing policymakers to confront difficult trade-offs as they consider how to allocate scarce resources across numerous worthy initiatives. To achieve their policy priorities, it will become increasingly important for policymakers to concentrate resources on programs that can clearly demonstrate that they improve their constituents’ quality of life. To identify such programs, cost/benefit analysis can be a powerful tool for objectively adjudicating the merits of particular programs.
The report can be downloaded HERE

Cost of Crime Calculator

Existing high-quality research on the costs of crime and the effectiveness of police demonstrates that public investment in police can generate substantial social returns. A Center on Quality Policing study, Hidden in Plain Sight: What Cost-of-Crime Research Can Tell Us About Investing in Police, shows how this research can be used to better understand the returns on investments in police.
Go to this website (HERE) to try the “cost of crime calculator” and see how altering police staffing affects crime in the community

Report of The Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement

The Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement (the Panel) was established as an advisory body to the San Francisco District Attorney in May 2015 in the wake of revelations that 14 San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers had exchanged numerous racist and homophobic text messages.

The Panel was tasked with answering the critical question that the text messaging scandal raised: Was the racial and homophobic bias so clearly demonstrated by the offensive texts a reflection of institutionalized bias within the SFPD and, if so, to what extent?

See below or select HERE for the report

Click to access BRP_report_0.pdf

CITY OF HOUSTON MAYOR’S TASK FORCE ON POLICING REFORM

Get the report here:

www.houstontx.gov/boards/policing-reform-report.pdf

Murders Spiked In 2020. How Will That Change The Politics of Crime? | FiveThirtyEight

There are several different points of view represented here.

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): New data released by the FB…
— Read on fivethirtyeight.com/features/murders-spiked-in-2020-how-will-that-change-the-politics-of-crime/

NYC Traffic Fatalities Rise as Enforcement Falls | City Journal

We need more cops in traffic enforcement if we’re serious about saving lives.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/nyc-traffic-fatalities-rise-as-enforcement-falls

An interview with Bill Bratton on the Reducing Crime Podcast

This is an EXCELLENT Podcast. I haven’t read Bill Bratton’s new book “The Profession” but I’m sure it is probably as good as his fist book “Turnaround” (One of my favorites). Bratton talks about several main points of policing that are key to the profession. The last 10 minutes Bratton compares the trends on the 1970s that caused the crime problems in the 1990s and the parallels he sees today which may generate similar crime problems in the future. An excellent comparison.

Check it out here:

soundcloud.com/user-780649270/38-bill-bratton