The Place Network Investigations approach combines data about geography and offenders, helping police predict to some degree where violence will occur. But critics say it resembles discredited “hot-spot” policing strategies.
Author: Stephen Handelman
Although discrimination against people with HIV became illegal in 2008 as part of an amendment to the Americans With Disabilities Act, police departments have a history of violating the law.
The Seattle Police Monitor reports the SPD’s use of force declined 33 percent from 2015 to 2019 and by nearly 50 percent from 2015 to 2021.
Researchers analyzing 29 years of police spending in hundreds of U.S. cities finds that as the police budget increases and the size of the force grows, many more people are arrested for relatively minor offenses like loitering, trespassing, and drug possession.
Just 2 to 6 percent of the disappearances, which number at roughly 95,000 as of November 2021, have resulted in prosecutions, with only 36 convictions handed down at the national level.
Police officers are trained to view people they’ve just shot as ongoing threats, so they routinely delay medical attention, the Los Angeles Times found in a review of nearly 50 LAPD shootings and hours of associated video.
With many expecting the Supreme Court expected to decide in June that all states can limit abortions to the earliest stages of pregnancy or ban the procedure altogether, legislation moving through more than a dozen statehouses would make it easier for residents and people from out of state to receive an abortion.
Tamara Herold, the architect of the “Place Network Investigations Model,” said that Taylor’s death should not be viewed as a consequence of the strategy.
Legislation which would make it illegal to film police officers past a certain distance is closer to becoming law, with GOP lawmakers advancing House Bill 2319, which states that a person may not film an officer within eight feet without the officer’s permission.
New York City has paid millions of dollars in settlements to resolve lawsuits stemming from previous incarnations of the specialized unit’s conduct, and enforcement of stop-and-frisk practices.