Baltimore has Found the Key to Urban Violence
A knock at the door. Two cops, your pastor, and a social worker with a message: stop the gun violence. This is exactly how one of America's most violent cities reduced homicides by 60%.
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Reading list·The 74 / Spotlight Delaware
Delaware district swaps armed police for district-employed constables in middle schools
Facing board pushback over school arrests, Christina School District will phase school resource officers out of middle schools and replace them with constables it employs directly.
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California's camera network spotted more than half of 2025's wildfires before anyone called 911
Nine years into a state-university partnership, the reporting says AI-assisted cameras informed the response to about 3,600 incidents last year, though no false-alarm or response-time figures are given.
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Detroit's own gunshot-detection numbers show alerts rarely end in evidence or arrests
As police sought a $2.06 million contract extension, department data cited in the reporting shows shell casings recovered in about 12 percent of ShotSpotter alerts and a lower arrest-clearance rate than for gunfire reported by other means.