Couldn’t make it? We pulled out the best comments on racial profiling, transparency, threat scores and other issues surrounding predictive policing. By Pedro Burgos

The News Journal 4:03 p.m. EST February 25, 2016, 26.02.2016

State police launch body camera pilot program

Brittany Horn, The News Journal

The Conversation February 25, 2016 9.52pm AEDT, 26.02.2016

Footwear forensics device could catch criminals who put a foot wrong

Author James Sharp, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham

Washington Post February 26, 2016, at 1:45 PM, 29.02.2016

In romantic comedies, it’s cute. In real life, it’s stalking.

By Lisa Bonos

New York Times February 26, 2016,, 29.02.2016

How to Reduce Crime: Stop Charging Children as Adults

By VINCENT SCHIRALDI

WSYM-TV 10:06 AM, Feb 26, 2016, 29.02.2016

MSU helps Flint fight crime, revive neighborhoods

The revolutionary concept of community policing was the brainchild of the late Michigan State University criminologist Robert Trojanowicz. And the streets of Flint were his proving ground in the late 1970s and ’80s.

The Conversation, 29.02.2016

Have faith: civil religion can counter the lure of eternal life for jihadists

Miguel Vatter

Truth-Out, 29.02.2016

Trial by Fire: Prosecutors Sending Juveniles to Adult Courts

Jean Trounstine

Daily PressTodays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University

What really threatens America: Zika, cancer or ISIS?

Europe’s refugee story has hardly begun

Partitioning Syria is not the answer – it’s a mistake we’ve made before

America’s unfinished business from the O.J. Simpson trial

Superior Face Recognition: A Very Special Super Power

All-American jihad: Peter Bergen on the homegrown terrorism threat

Review: Spotlight’s revealing story of child abuse in my home town – and maybe yours

A Scholar's View on Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

Could There Ever Be Another O. J. Simpson?

Unemployment: The All-but-Certain Fate of Too Many Poor Black Boys

FactCheck Q&A: is domestic violence on the decline?

U.S. gun homicide rate more than 25 times higher than in other high-income countries

Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial fuels debate over defence lawyering

O.J. Simpson’s return: what we’ve learned in the 20 years since the trial of the century

‘Recycling is for drunks, addicts and babushkas’ – inside Russia’s mafia-dominated waste industry

#DickPics are no joke: cyber-flashing, misogyny and online dating

Shedding light on the hidden epidemic of police suicide in South Africa

UT Dallas study: Most NFL arrests not for violent crimes

What's the impact of new marijuana laws? The data so far...

Financial industry coping with issues of elder exploitation, cognitive decline

Fixing the UK's mental health crisis will need both police and health

Five Studies: Understanding America's Opioid Crisis

What will it take for white Americans to distrust the police?

Overall US crime rates unaffected by so-called ‘Ferguson effect,’ CU-Boulder-led study finds

Black behind bars

Death row inmates’ final words are more positive than negative, say psychologists

Taser shock disrupts brain function, has implications for police interrogations

Explainer: what happens to people who are suspected of being ‘radicalised’?

Meet the ’Ndrangheta – and why it’s time to bust some myths about the Calabrian mafia

The removal of road markings is to be celebrated. We are safer without them

Why there’s a case for bringing private armies in from the cold

Join us or die: the birth of Boko Haram

Aggression causes new nerve cells to be generated in the brain

Germany’s welcome to migrants wears thin as Cologne launches more festivities

Hallucinogen Use Could Protect Against Intimate Partner Violence

New initiative from Governor Jerry Brown could reform sentencing in California, cut prison terms

Privacy Shield replaces Safe Harbour, but only the name has changed

How much did British intelligence know about the IRA during the troubles?

Study: Tasers could lead to false confessions

Biometrics in border security and banking, fingerprint technology trending this week

Guns in mental health hospitals could hinder recovery

Thoughtless crimes still require attention

Fighting ‘Erasure’

Making a Murderer: why innocent people confess under interrogation

Feeling sleepy? You might be at risk of falsely confessing to a crime you did not commit

People who believe in conspiracy theories are more likely to endorse violence (Commentary)

Marketing Against ISIS: US State Department Enlists Students to Fight Terror

The Arbitrary Detention of Julian Assange

Rescued From the Realm of Legend: Israel's 1976 Entebbe Raid Revisited

Rise in terror plots a sign of things to come, ISIS brags

The Clintons’ War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn’t Matter

Humans have always been migrants

Social media is changing the face of politics – and it’s not good news

Churches would break the law if they gave sanctuary to asylum seekers – but does it matter?

Injury deaths and life-expectancy gap between US and other high-income countries

How to unleash the wisdom of crowds

The Federal response in Malheur and far right extremism

Violence against women: does technology do more harm than good?

Why are so many unnatural deaths not investigated?

Starting age of marijuana use may have long-term effects on brain development

Study sheds light on source of drug addicts risk-taking behavior

The Anger of Ta-Nehisi Coates

A political movement is rising from the mud in Calais

Germany train crash: ways in which rail safety systems can fail

The Impact Of ‘Broken Windows’ Policing On Black Communities In New York City

Rape victims have a right to be believed by the police

Lead: America's Real Criminal Element

The police beating that opened America’s eyes to Jim Crow’s brutality

Lima’s ‘Wall of Shame’ and the gated communities that build poverty into Peru

Better definition needed for reasonable medical certainty in child abuse cases

About 1 in 5 adolescent victims of sexual harassment on social media report abuse to provider

When eagles scare: there are other ways to stop a rogue drone

The Diplomat and the Killer

What Happens If Aleppo Falls?

What needs to happen now to get medicinal cannabis to those who need it?

How to prevent prisoners from attempting suicide

Research finds long-term heart attack risk to men who as children experienced incarceration of family member

Mother of Columbine killer breaks silence

Drexel criminologist to evaluate impact of SEPTA's body camera initiative

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Todays crime related press reports collected by Prof. Thomas Görgen, German Police University