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Ohio Supreme Court Justice Leads Effort to Collect Criminal Sentencing Data

by CivMetrics Staff | Jun 28, 2021 | Criminal Justice

One of Ohio’s top judges is leading an effort to collect sentencing data in a bid to offer more transparency and context to judges’ sentencing decisions. Ohio courts do not collect or share criminal sentencing data. This means defense attorneys often have...

Lack of Federal Funds Derail Inmate Risk Assessment Tool

by CivMetrics Staff | Apr 25, 2019 | Criminal Justice

The federal government’s failure to adequately fund the implementation of the First Step Act, a recent law reforming parts of the criminal justice system, has resulted in a mixed bag of successes and failures. Some count the early release of minor drug offenders a...

California’s Faulty Data Coverage Means Disjointed Criminal Justice System

by CivMetrics Staff | Apr 25, 2019 | Criminal Justice

Poor quality data and even poorer state-wide reporting standards have opened up gaps in California’s records that have allowed violent felons to have access to guns while unduly penalizing others for misdemeanors. “The absence of good data is a threat to public...

NYC Struggles To Penetrate Black Box of Its Own Algorithms

by CivMetrics Staff | Apr 25, 2019 | Criminal Justice

New York City wanted to be sure that the AI and the algorithms that will be used to manage its programs would be unbiased. But the task force NYC formed to carry out this directive isn’t sure it can achieve its objective. Task force members say that the lack of...

The Tourist Town Where Nobody Can Decide If Crime Is Rising or Falling

by CivMetrics Staff | Apr 25, 2019 | Criminal Justice

A town councilman and local business leader claims that the tourist town of Niagara Falls, New York is under siege from criminals. Yet the town’s police chief claims that such reports are exaggerated and cites data that the incidence of crime has been falling for the...

GIS: An Indispensable Tool For Analyzing Criminal Patterns

by CivMetrics Staff | Apr 25, 2019 | Criminal Justice

Everything that happens in the world happens in a specific location. The ability to situate and analyze that piece of information in combination with a million other bits of data from satellites or drones or ground-based devices provides vantage points that clears...
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