Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 116009 total results. Showing results 63201 to 63220 «315731583159316031613162316331643165Next ›Last » Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deepfakes to Deceive Victims: the Need to Rethink Current Romance Fraud Prevention Messaging Romance fraud uses the guise of a genuine relationship to deceive a victim for a financial gain. Each year, millions of individuals globally lose money to these approaches. Current prevention messaging focuses heavily on promoting the use of internet searches (specifically reverse image searches) to verify or refute the identity/scenario that one is being presented with. For those who choose to do this, it can be successful and avoid initial financial losses or reduce the overall amount of money lost to an offender. However, as technology evolves, it is likely offenders will alter their methods to deceive victims. This is already evident through the rapid progression and improvements of artificial intelligence and deepfakes to create unique images. This article argues that the adoption of these new techniques requires a need to rethink current prevention messaging, as the utility of conducting reverse image searches may become somewhat redundant into the future. Crime Prevention and Community Safety - Registration at source 4/1/2022 Research article Local Crime Prevention Work: Cultivating A Political Profile At A Municipal Level Over the last 30 years, crime policy has become a central research area in criminology, and many important studies have been written. The primary focuses of many of these studies have been the so-called punitive turn. But alongside the punitive turn, there has also been a preventive turn and much of the preventive work since the late 1980s has taken presence in what is conceptualized as the community level. In Sweden local crime prevention (LCP), placing the municipal at the center of the work has been developing since the late 1990s. The belief in LCP as the kings’ way to success was confirmed in the latest government crime policy program. Through a study of a Swedish municipal, Landskrona, we analyze how a local crime policy takes form and how it is motivated and rationalized. The majority of Swedish studies on LCP primarily focus on evaluation, trying to measure potential effects. The purpose of the paper is to analyze how LCP is set within a political process and then assembled at the municipality level. The objective was to get close to the actual process of formulating and applying a municipal crime policy. Our research highlights that contrary to political belief, a prudent citizen has to be molded and shaped rather than liberated. Crime Prevention and Community Safety - Registration at source 4/1/2022 Research article The Predictive Accuracy of Prospective Hot Spot Mapping and the Race and Ethnicity of Street Robbery Victims: Could A Popular Approach to Crime Fighting Be A Source of Systemic Racism? Street robbery incident location data recorded over a 3-year period were aggregated into a sample of crime panels (N = 78) and used to construct a series of prospective hot spot maps, based on kernel density estimation. Panels of crime data were analyzed to determine whether the predictive accuracy of prospective hot spot mapping varied by victims’ race and ethnicity. Results from this exploratory study showed that the predictive accuracy of forecasts varied between three groups compared (i.e., White, Black, and Hispanic victims), even after the racial and ethnic composition of each crime panel analyzed was considered. Current findings raise concerns about the potential impact that crime forecasting could have on racial and ethnic minorities, including less protection for some communities of color, but increased police-public contact for others. Implications for place-based policing and on the future of scholarship in this area are discussed. Crime Prevention and Community Safety - Registration at source 4/1/2022 Research article Weekly academic research summary This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 4/1/2022 News Leadership potential: How the FLP is improving representation on the frontline Police Now’s first Frontline Leadership Programme (FLP) launched in September, and – with applications already now open for the third cohort – in December the organisation ran an online Women in Leadership event to support the application process; Policing Insight spoke to the three officers on the event panel about the challenges facing women in policing, the work of Police Now, and how the FLP could help to change the culture of policing. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 4/1/2022 Feature Ratification of the Council of Europe convention on combating violence against women and domestic violence – progress report 2019 POLICY PAPER: Third progress report on the UK's progress toward ratification of the Istanbul Convention, and measures taken forward since the second progress report. Home Office 4/1/2022 Report Pardons extended to all abolished same-sex crimes More people will be eligible for a pardon for historical criminal convictions relating to homosexual activity, the government has said. BBC 4/1/2022 News Past convictions for homosexual activity to be wiped from records, Patel to announce UK’s disregards and pardons scheme set to be expanded to ‘right wrongs of the past’ The Guardian 4/1/2022 News Met Police face backlash over ‘PR stunt’ after drugs swabbing clubgoers to ‘support women’s safety’ One woman was arrested on the night taskforce officers were filmed conducting drugs tests on people entering two venues in Shoreditch i News 4/1/2022 News Met Police are blasted for boasting about operation ‘to make women safer on the streets’ that involved randomly swabbing clubbers for drugs and led to just one woman being arrested The Met Police have been slammed for their 'invasive' policing after officers took to the streets of London to carry out random drugs swabs on clubbers during a 'week of action' tackling violence against women. Mail Online 4/1/2022 News The UK is in danger of becoming a police state masquerading as a democracy Hysteria whipped up against groups like Insulate Britain masks the dark side of the Conservatives’ police and courts bill The Guardian 4/1/2022 Feature, Opinion Cannabis, ket and speed to be ‘decriminalised in London’ by Sadiq Khan The mayor of London is reportedly planning to end the prosecution of young people caught with cannabis by decriminalising certain drugs in the capital. Metro 4/1/2022 News Check out this BMW M3 competition police car for Australia AUSTRALIA: The BMW M3 retails for a ridiculous price; however, taxpayers do not have to fret since BMW Australia is lending the M3 to Victoria Police for a short period, just like it did before. Hotcars 3/1/2022 News New police laws ‘good in places’ AUSTRALIA: Wide ranging new reforms to police powers in areas from knife crime to sexual abuse, were too wide ranging and not sufficiently coherent, according to Gympie MP Tony Perrett. Gympie Today (Australia) 3/1/2022 News Police ask drivers to be patient after 14 road deaths so far this holiday period NEW ZEALAND: With the holiday period road toll at 14 early on Monday, police are asking drivers to be patient and expect delays. [VIDEO] Stuff (New Zealand) 3/1/2022 News Police still committed to solving 23-year cold case murder of Auckland woman Claire Hills NEW ZEALAND: Police are still committed to solving the brutal murder of an Auckland woman, 23 years on, a top detective says. [VIDEO] Stuff (New Zealand) 3/1/2022 News Re-Examining the Use of Force Continuum: Why Resistance Is Not the Only Driver of Use of Force Decisions Policing research and use of force policies have been guided by the continuum model for the past several decades. The continuum specifies a relationship between the amount of resistance a suspect presents and the amount of force that an officer should use to respond to or overcome a given level of resistance. In this paper, we show that resistance alone is an insufficient indicator of the necessity and level of force to be used both conceptually and empirically. We argue for the inclusion of considerations of perceived threat in the analysis of use of force incidents—both in policy and in research. Our analysis also reiterates the importance of police culture in understanding use of force decisions. Police Quarterly - Registration at source 3/1/2022 Research article The Alignment Between Community Policing and the Work of School Resource Officers Despite a growing literature showing the ineffectiveness of school resource officers (SROs) for reducing school crime, their use is widespread. Some of this ineffectiveness may arise from SROs’ experiences of role conflict due to their multi-faceted roles and conflicting expectations associated with following two authority structures. Community policing (CP) may offer a unifying perspective that can address some of these barriers. The current study uses data from 119 qualitative interviews with SROs from three U.S. states to examine the extent to which SROs’ activities align with three dimensions of CP: community partnerships, problem-solving, and organizational adaptation. This study finds that SROs’ described activities align well with these dimensions, suggesting that a CP framework may be a strong model for organizing and describing the work of SROs. This framework can be viewed as an initial proof of concept, and research may elaborate on the framework and assess its utility. Police Quarterly - Registration at source 3/1/2022 Research article The law above: Toronto Police drone program soars to new heights CANADA: Imagine growing up in the Roaring 20s — a time when automobiles had recently replaced horse-drawn carriages and families gathered around radios to listen to their favourite shows — and being told one day your life will be saved by an unmanned aircraft using infrared technology. Toronto Sun (Canada) 3/1/2022 Analysis, Feature Waterloo region police partner with human rights experts to improve race data collection system CANADA: Two Ontario-based human rights experts are leading a new study into the Waterloo Regional Police Service's race-based data collection strategy with a goal to help reduce racial disparities. CBC News (Canada) 3/1/2022 News «315731583159316031613162316331643165Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
