The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/policing/)
In a multi-year study involving six countries in the southern hemisphere, researchers found that community policing did not increase local trust in law enforcement, nor did it reduce crime.
Law enforcement agencies have had to step up recruiting and offer incentives competitive with those offered by other employers.
Kim Potter, who resigned two days after the shooting of Daunte Wright, says she made an innocent mistake when she reached for her pistol instead of her Taser.
Young people are all too often left out of discussions about policing practices, the law, and the relationship between their communities and law enforcement. Here’s an opportunity to listen to them.
The small number of individuals involved in shootings within any given community are connected by a web of social relationships in which violence follows the same predictable pathways as any pathogen, suggests Chicago criminologist Andrew Papachristos. In the latest installment of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation “Crossroads” interviews, he explains how that research finding can inform efforts to reduce gun violence.
D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III called reaching 200 homicides “very troubling,” noting “lives that matter in our city were unnecessarily taken away too soon.” The D.C. police union attributed the crime spike to “changes in policing born out of the 2020 summer of social unrest.”
When Baltimore City and Prince George’s County recently released their lists of police officers who would no longer be called to testify in court, it raised more than a few eyebrows. But the real issue is that far too few prosecutors track police misconduct at all, writes the deputy director of John Jay’s Institute for Innovation in Prosecution.
Critics say that a complicated set of rules enforced by the Civil Service Commission and meant to protect job seekers from public corruption have hamstrung efforts to include people of color.
The money will be given directly to police and sheriff’s departments as part of a grant program that would bring on more than 1,000 new officers. The announcement comes following the enactment of the new First Responders Act, expanding benefits and education assistance to families of first responders.
Since September, teams of behavioral health specialists in New Mexico’s largest city have been the first responders to nonviolent 911 calls that once required police presence. Supporters say Albuquerque’s Community Safety unit is an example of an emerging “hybrid” approach that could change public safety in America.