The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/policing/)
London is adopting a level of surveillance that is rare outside of China. The decision is a major development in the use of technology that has caused a worldwide debate about the balance between security and privacy.
The officers arrested Daniels at a strip club as her case involving a $130,000 payment from President Donald Trump’s attorney was in the news. The charges were quickly dropped, and the city settled a Daniels lawsuit for $450,000.
Milwaukee DA John Chisholm and Wisconsin Public Defender John Reed have crossed turf lines to collaborate in a system of “community-oriented” justice whose end goal is to put fewer people in prison. In a Harvard paper, they argue there’s no reason why other cities can’t follow a similar path.
Police in places like the San Francisco Bay area and Seattle are responding to more hoax calls asserting that violent crimes are occurring at the homes of tech-firm executives.
Mayor G.T. Bynum said Franklin “has a clear vision of the Tulsa Police Department … is an effective team builder with high standards, and … knows personally the realities of community policing in all parts of our city.”
Solomon Nhiwatiwa, who is resigning from the Cleveland police force, pleaded guilty to attempted kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl and other charges.
Phil Keith, director of the U.S. Justice Department’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, and Katharine Sullivan, who runs DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs, will lead the Commission. Attorney General William Barr says the panel will fill “a need for a modern study of how law enforcement can best protect and serve American communities.”
At a news conference marking his release from prison, Delbert Africa, a longtime member of MOVE, was unrepentant about his part in the violent 1978 confrontation between the group and Philadelphia police, which ended with the death of an officer.
A fatal shooting last year by Texas state troopers deployed to Dallas city streets raises questions about the mixing of police agencies that have different policies on when a pursuit is justified.
The two officers were shot as a man, 69, was evicted from his home. He attacked his landlady and started a fire that destroyed seven homes.