Someone should go scrape the crime solutions dot gov data before it gets taken down (like how RTI took down its forensic science website)

Only 9 days left to submit your abstract for the 10th annual American Society of Evidence-Based Policing Conference. Don't miss out! This is one of the best practitioner/researcher policing conferences out there!

For my friends, this is the beta launch of CrimRxiv Consortium's membership program for individuals. Take a look. Join if you'd like. Let me know what you think. There's strength in numbers. Open criminology is for everyone. 🧡 app.joinit.com/o/crimconsorti…

New blog post, having python record your keyboard and mouse and replay those events, andrewpwheeler.com/2025/10/10/rec…. This is a way to automate workflows that are not directly scriptable.

I visited a dozen area electronic gaming businesses, lost and won some money, and found their continued, unregulated existence is due less to any legal loopholes and more to authorities in Raleigh, Durham and Cary choosing not to close them. newsobserver.com/news/business/…

For folks interested in some data to back up this anecdote, Gio Circo had a blog post analyzing data on this (from a Youtuber that did a super-size me like series on Chipotle) gmcirco.github.io/blog/posts/chi…

For those interested, it is kind of like comparing the %reduction in the piloted areas (~30%) vs citywide (~15%). So decent evidence it is reducing verbal/physical assaults (I presume verbal is a MUCH higher proportion), but not stat significant over the year.