News items related to data collection

What’s the deal with data?

Kate McCracken, Nov 21, 2013

In a post-Realignment California, criminal and juvenile justice professionals and advocates require accessible data resources in order to develop state and local policies. Everyone agrees reliable data is necessary to examine the impact of Realignment on California.

 

Big Government Must Embrace Big Data

Brian Goldstein, Nov 19, 2013

California is the tech center of the world, filled with a richness of technical expertise and innovation. The state now needs political leadership to develop policy that leverages these elements to best serve all Californians.

Op-ed: Statistical Bigotry is Just Bigotry

Sep 16, 2013

CJCJ's Senior Research Fellow, Mike Males, is featured in the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.

The state of disproportionate minority contact: San Francisco & beyond

Brian Goldstein, Sep 27, 2012

The execution of justice is not always neutral.  Unfortunately, racial discrimination remains deeply imbedded in the policies and practices of the justice system, and not merely a relic of the past.  For example, minority youth are disproportionately affected with higher arrest and confinement rates than White youth.  Experts identify this phenomenon as Disproportionate Minority Contact/Confinement (DMC).  This is a widely recognized problem, one already given considerable attention by law…

San Francisco Police Department upgrading data collection system

Selena Teji, Sep 18, 2012

On Wednesday, September 12, 2012, the San Francisco Police Commission met to discuss a range of issues, including the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD)'s faulty and problematic system of collecting arrest data. Recently highlighted by the Bay Citizen , San Francisco County is the only county of 58 in California that does not accurately report the arrests of Hispanic residents. CJCJ noted this data limitation in an April 2012 publication documenting a 40+ year pattern of racially…

San Francisco data collection needs upgrade

Selena Teji, Aug 14, 2012

An article in the Bay Citizen today sheds much needed light on the importance and lack of accurate data collection in San Francisco.  In particular, the article notes the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) underreports the arrests of Latino and Asian residents (the city's two largest minority groups) by misclassifying them at "white" or "other."  These inaccuracies have significant repercussions that effect not only law enforcement, but policymakers, and local residents.  For example in…

California's myriad sentencing practices

Selena Teji, Jul 31, 2012

Yesterday, CJCJ launched the California Sentencing Institute's (CASI) new interface that allows for quicker, easier visual representations of California's statewide sentencing practices.  Immediately apparent upon visiting the site are the huge sentencing disparities among California's 58 counties.  Further exploration of the site indicates various interesting trends. For example, while Kings County is ranked at the top of every metric related to use of state prison, it is not the highest…

Sneak Preview: California Sentencing Institute Upgrade

Jul 24, 2012

In 2009, CJCJ launched its California Sentencing Institute  (CASI) as the foundation for data and research driven commentary on the broader public safety dialogue.  The interactive map reveals detailed crime and incarceration trends for California's 58 counties, and it's about to get better... CJCJ will launch a newly developed CASI early next week!  The new map will feature interactive filters, county comparisons, geographic visualizations, and fully downloadable excel datasets.   Access…

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