9 Best Articles in 2022
Gizmodo
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Bias-Free. New Data Shows It Perpetuates It
Gizmodo
~20 min read · 2021-12-02 · Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Blacks and Latino neighborhoods. · Shared by 56, including Esther Schindler, Matthias Lampe, Bob E. Hayes, ACLU, Mathew Ingram
crimereads.com
The Story of Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Quite Possibly the Strangest American Crime Film of the…
crimereads.com
6 min read · Jun 21st · Want to talk about one of the strangest, if not the strangest American crime film to emerge in the first half of the 1970s? Then, let’s talk about Michael Ritchie’s neo-noir Prime Cut, as it turns … · Shared by 82
WIRED UK
Police built an AI to predict violent crime. It was seriously flawed
WIRED UK
8 min read · From 2020 · A Home Office-funded project that used artificial intelligence to predict gun and knife crime was found to be wildly inaccurate · Shared by 131, including Nige Willson, Backchannel, Dean Anthony Gratton, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Neil Hart 💙, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bob E. Hayes, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁
crimereads.com
The 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade
crimereads.com
9 min read · From 2019 · As 2019 comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of the decade that was in crime fiction and mystery. Why? Because we can. Because the books are there to be read and re-read, debated and rec… · Shared by 84, including Juan Cole, Jane, Matteo Furia
Guardian Books
Top 10 Scottish crime novels
Guardian Books
5 min read · From 2020 · Scottish novelists from William McIlvanney to Ian Rankin and Denise Mina deliver all the gut-punch thrills of crime without forgetting its human cost · Shared by 109, including Alan Chattaway, Esther Schindler, Jane
Five Books
The Best Crime Fiction of 2021
Five Books
6 min read · 2021-12-09 · The best crime fiction books of 2021, recommended by Five Books editor and avid crime book reader, Sophie Roell. · Shared by 53
projects.tampabay.com
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families.
projects.tampabay.com
20+ min read · From 2020 · Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime. · Shared by 93, including Audrey Watters, Patricia Smith, sonia, Cory Doctorow, Psymposia, Gengo 🦁, Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, Deborah Blum, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Shaun King
The Guardian
Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’
The Guardian
~20 min read · 2021-04-28 · The long read: It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain · Shared by 400, including Luke Robert Mason, Alice Wong 王美華, Ida Bae Wells, Tsion Firew, MD, MPH, Guy Longworth, Deborah Blum, Naomi Klein, Bruce Lawson, Carlos del Rio, Mathew Ingram, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Helen De Cruz, Steve Keen, William Gibson, David Weigel, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Jason Stanley, Akshat Rathi, Jeff Jarvis, Bethany Brookshire
BBC News (World)
How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime
BBC News (World)
7 min read · From 2018 · Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US. What is the secret? · Shared by 81, including Carolyn Porco, Tom Connor
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Guardian Books
The joy of crime fiction: thriller writers on their favourite crime fiction
Guardian Books
~11 min read · Jul 31st · Val McDermid, Nicci French, Anthony Horowitz and more reveal what makes a great novel, celebrating writers including Patricia Highsmith, Donna Tartt and Dennis Lehane · Shared by 40, including Jane
omny.fm
New season of Crime Beat Chronicles podcast coming soon: The disappearance of Sydney Loofe
omny.fm
1 min read · Aug 9th · Don't miss the upcoming fourth season of the Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles podcast. · Shared by 27
omny.fm
Chapter 1: In Sydney's name — The disappearance of Sydney Loofe
omny.fm
1 min read · Aug 24th · 🎧 Listen to the first chapter of the new season of the Crime Beat Chronicles podcast that looks into the disappearance of a 24-year-old Nebraska woman. · Shared by 27
stacker.com
Reports of hate crimes are rising. Here are how protections vary by state
stacker.com
9 min read · Aug 23rd · There are currently 46 states with some type of hate crime law on the books. But those laws differ, sometimes substantially, by state. · Shared by 30
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The Markup
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
The Markup
~20 min read · 2021-12-02 · Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods · Shared by 51, including Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org, Cory Doctorow, Ibram X. Kendi, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Joel Eastwood, Tactical Tech
crimereads.com
The Most Unusual Murder Weapons in Crime Fiction
crimereads.com
7 min read · 2020-11-25 · One of the first things you discover as a crime writer is that the range of plausible murder methods is disappointingly small. Basically, it’s stabbing, throat-cutting, strangling, shooting, drowni… · Shared by 58, including Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг), Esther Schindler
ProPublica
Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in…
ProPublica
20+ min read · 2021-10-08 · Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem… · Shared by 314, including ExApologist, Dr. John Grohol 🇺🇦, Shaun King, Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷, Joshua Benton, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Stephanie Moulton Sarkis PhD, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Graham Brown-Martin, Catherine Rampell, Dov Nelkin, Julia Ioffe, Dan Gillmor, Richard Deitsch, GreenKerene, Steve Locke, Clint Smith
Scientific American
Sending Health Care Workers instead of Cops Can Reduce Crime
Scientific American
4 min read · Jun 9th · A study shows that first responders who are not police can be more effective for low-level incidents · Shared by 131, including Maia Szalavitz, Emily Willingham
VICE
Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime
VICE
2 min read · From 2020 · Technologists from MIT, Harvard, and Google say research claiming to predict crime based on human faces creates a "tech-to-prison pipeline" that reinforces racist policing. · Shared by 54, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Bob E. Hayes, Merkstatt, Ian M Calvert, Chris Heilmann
thebookshelfcafe.news
The Bookshelf Cafe News
thebookshelfcafe.news
3 min read · From 2020 · True-crime research, novel writing research, and updates. ***READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED*** BLOG POST #233: This week, I’m sharing research on … More Fugitive On The Run There are plenty of book… · Shared by 1136, including Elinor Stutz
The Globe and Mail
Here are the five best true-crime podcasts
The Globe and Mail
4 min read · 2021-10-26 · Author and New York Times columnist Sarah Weinman on true-crime podcasts worth the listen · Shared by 41
The Atlantic
How the Pandemic Broke Social Interaction
The Atlantic
7 min read · Mar 30th · Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents, and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently. Why? · Shared by 157, including Felix M, Olga Khazan, Dr. Syra Madad, John Koetsier, David Weigel, Guy Kawasaki, Jen Simmons, Howard Getson
The Atavist Magazine
A Crime Beyond Belief - The Atavist Magazine
The Atavist Magazine
Apr 30th · A Harvard-trained lawyer was convicted of committing bizarre home invasions. Psychosis may have compelled him to do it. But in a case that became a public sensation, he wasn’t the only one who seemed… · Shared by 194, including Colin Wright
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