Does Chicago’s ‘Strategic Subject List’ Work?
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Analysts Jeff Asher and Rob Arthur question Chicago’s algorithm that tries to predict who is likely to be involved in a shooting.
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Police Departments Modernize, Relax Hiring Rules
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As big police departments struggle to fill thousands of openings, they are rethinking standards once considered sacrosanct. New Orleans, for example, no longer automatically disqualifies applicants who have injected heroin or smoked crack.
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Many Moonlighting Cops Don’t Use Body Cameras
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Most police agencies that make cameras mandatory for patrol work don’t require or won’t allow body cameras for off-duty officers even if they’re working in uniform. That leaves a gap in policies designed to increase oversight and restore confidence in law enforcement, says the Associated Press.
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Police Taking Bigger Role in Fighting Opioids
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Police leaders are are working with public health officials, and carrying more antidotes for heroin and its synthetic cousin fentanyl. Few see policing alone as the answer to such a complex social problem.
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L.A. County to Pay $3.3M for Killing by Deputies
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A schizophrenic man’s family asked the Los Angeles County sheriff’s office for a mental evaluation team. Instead, deputies shot John Berry 18 times in a struggle.
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TX Sheriff’s Deputy, Husband Indicted in Fatal Choking
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A rare indictment of a law enforcement officer on a first-degree felony charge came after 150 protesters marched across downtown Houston. John Hernandez, 24, was killed outside of a restaurant late last month.
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Trump, Lawmakers Seek Tough Penalties for Police Killers
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Nearly half of those accused of killing officers already could face the death penalty. Head of national prosecutors’ group says new punishments aren’t needed. Lasts year, 66 officers were killed on duty, up from 41 in 2015.
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Too Much Police Work? OH Cop On Job 110 Hours Weekly
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Several Cincinnati police officers work 90 hours weekly or more, thanks to off-duty details that have grown this decade. It’s a trend one expert calls “terrifying,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The officer who worked nearly 110 hours a week on average over the last 12 months was paid more than $130,000 in off-duty pay, with earnings nearly $300,000.
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MN Police to Get Required Crisis Intervention Training
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In what a police chief calls a “game changer for Minnesota law enforcement,” as of July 1, 2018, all officers must get a minimum of 16 hours of training every three years on three areas — responding to a mental health crisis, de-escalation of conflicts and diversity and implicit bias training. The state will give police $6 million every year for the next four years for the training, three times the amount now available.
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Black Drivers Get Less Respect Than Whites from Police
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Stanford researchers study police body camera footage and conclude that, “officers’ language is less respectful when speaking to black community members.”