Some observations:
- Rates of contact with policing differ by age, sex and ethnicity
- Some of that will be a function of institutional and individual officer decision making
- Much will reflect wider inequalities in society
- It's difficult to identify the split
Interesting framework on how police (🇬🇧) are likely to use different AI tools in future, and the different ethical and reputational issues that creates. Good to see the Met having this debate at least somewhat in public.
At the point where people are setting fire to vehicles, those people are either rioters or arsonists, not protestors.
In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.
Most street violence occurs in a small number of hotspots. New research shows hotspots (🇺🇸) are connected by (the same offenders using) the same weapons across hotspots, with nearby hotspots and those with similar ethnic makeup being more connected.
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Men's professional football matches in London led to real but quite small increases in police use of force in the local area. The typical effect of a match was that there were 0.77 more uses of force in a borough on a match day than would be expected otherwise.
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My UCL Crime Science colleague Jyoti Belur has set herself quite the challenge to answer this question in her professorial inaugural lecture this evening!
Routine arming of police (🇦🇺) didn’t lead to any change in the rate at which police shot people.
This study doesn’t look at other potential consequences such as officer suicides using their firearm, which has been a consistent problem in Australia.
