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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
