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

Get the report here:

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”.

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

See the report here:

www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument

America’s Traffic Laws Give Police Way Too Much Power | TIME

We’ll never know what Philando Castile was feeling when the police lights first flashed across his rearview mirror on a balmy night in the summer of 2016. But we can be reasonably certain of what he wasn’t feeling: surprise. The traffic stop—ostensibly for a broken tail light—that precipitated his tragic death, and captured the nation’s attention, was nothing out of the ordinary for Castile. It was in fact the 46th time he had been pulled over. And while this figure may seem shocking to some, there is sadly nothing aberrational about it.
— Read on time.com/6175852/pretextual-traffic-stops/

California Law Enforcement Agencies Are Spending More But Solving Fewer Crimes | Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

A new report finds that, despite record spending on law enforcement, crime-solving is at record lows.

** I bet there is more to this than the report reveals.
— Read on www.cjcj.org/reports-publications/report/california-law-enforcement-agencies-are-spending-more-but-solving-fewer-crimes

The Facts about COPS: A Performance Overview of the Community Oriented Policing Services Program | The Heritage Foundation

The President’s COPS program is expensive, but is it effective?
— Read on www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/the-facts-about-cops-performance-overview-the-community-oriented-policing

The 311 on NYC’s longer-than-ever 911s?

Wait times for police calls in New York City have never ben longer.
— Read on nypost.com/2024/02/10/opinion/the-311-on-nycs-longer-than-ever-911s/

Is Crime Underreporting Getting Worse? – by Jeff Asher

One of the common responses to my piece from last week on the widespread — albeit preliminary — reported decline in murder and crime could be summarized in the below comment from Twitter: “How accurate can recent burglary/larceny crime stats be when we know they’re not being recorded in many locations where such theft won’t be prosecuted? I imagine the same goes for some other stats here.”
— Read on jasher.substack.com/p/is-crime-underreporting-getting-worse

Super Speeders: Mining Speed-Camera Data to Analyze Extreme Recidivism in New York City | Published in Findings

By Marcel Moran. Mining a decade of speed-camera data in New York City finds some individual automobiles are accruing upwards of 100 or more violations per year, even as overall violations are decreasing.
— Read on findingspress.org/

High-profile incidents of police brutality sway public opinion more than performance of local law enforcement: Study

National media coverage of police brutality influences public perceptions of law enforcement more than the performance of people’s local police departments, according to data analysis from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, …
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-02-high-profile-incidents-police-brutality.html