The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/policing/)
Police should focus on policies and practices that lend themselves to “procedural fairness,” according to researchers who conducted interviews of 687 victims of non-sexual crimes in Seattle.
New Orleans has 300 cameras on public streets. Police Superintendent Michael Harrison calls them crime-fighting tools, not surveillance. He admits that the cameras might shift crime to other areas.
The latest legal effort by civil rights advocates to make disciplinary records of police officers public failed in the state’s highest court. The New York Civil Liberties Union called the ruling a “terrible setback.”
“Merely because an individual has a firearm or some other weapon does not mean that they are an individual who needs to be shot,” says criminologist and former police officer David Klinger.
Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said the New York Times, in an article this week, “misrepresents that we are blaming civilians” for an increase in shootings by police officers. Williams said the city has asked the National Police
Foundation to analyze the trend.
Security guards in Illinois fired guns at least 37 times in seven years, killing 11 people. The Chicago Tribune could find no case in which the state disciplined a guard for a shooting.
Video of the incident went viral on social media. Two agency “peace officers” forced a woman to the ground and removed her one-year-old child from her arms. Police Commissioner James O’Neill called the incident “very disturbing.”
Phoenix Police have shot 41 people so far this year, almost twice as many as last year and 11 more than the combined total for the three cities closest in size. City officials are making “biased claims against the community,” says a local activist.
After an investigation by NJ Advance Media, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, along with local, county and state law enforcement officials as well as the heads of major police unions — said they would be “working together to design a new system for obtaining use-of-force data in New Jersey.”
As the murder total has risen to 319, the highest in six years, the clearance rate has dropped to 32 percent, and overtime spending has been cut, leading detectives, union officials and even prosecutors to cry foul.