1. PRESENTATION OF DATA FROM A SYSTEM LENS (CORNELIUS)
Presentation on Data from a Systems Lens. Presentation examines volume of activity
with a focus on racially disparate offenses and information on substance use and
behavioral health issues reviewed. Ballpark annual numbers on data provided on calls
for service, property & violent crimes, arrests, and new criminal court cases filed.
Question regarding if data is presented by individuals or events. Question on if data is
reported by race and ethnicity. Question on if domestic crime cases are included. CCAP
data used for the presentation. Aggregated by using the violent crime list from the
Wisconsin Pretrial Project. Question whether a CM case was coded by a violent crime.
Data limited to ages of 17-35. Question on how the decision and who the people are
that decide what is considered violent or non-violent?
Presentation on the 8 most disparate (black/white) non-violent crime categories.
Question on if analysis included resisting and obstructing an officer. Question on if
obstruction includes obedience to traffic officers. Question on if charges are just related
to traffic stops. Question on data on traffic stops and related disparity.
Question on what charges are considered violent.
Presentation on geo-location of where individuals with cases on most racially disparate
crime categories are living. Question on exclusion of job center and county jail and if
Beacon should also be excluded.
Presentation on share of all criminal cases that include one of the most disparate
category of charges. Question on number of people at job center and county jail
excluded in analysis.
Presentation on length of stay for cases with most disparate charges. Question on if
data presented is prior to adjudication. Question on how many cases were paired up
with a violent offense. Question on what charges are eligible based on Bureau of
Justice Assistance (BJA) grant requirements. Question on how obstruction to an officer
is measured in the data.
Presentation on substance use and mental health and cases with dugs and alcohol.
Question on if Criminal Traffic (CT) cases reported were repeat operating while
intoxicated (OWI) offenses.
Presentation on mental health for people booked in Dane County Jail from pilot program
to screen mental health issues by the jail from 2021 and 2022. Question on pilot
assessment conducted in jail and what determining factors exist to consider mental
health individuals. Question on if assessment is self-reported. Question on if
self-assessment was given at booking.
Presentation on additional resources by the Dane County Community Justice Council:
cjc.countyofdane.com
Question on racial breakdown and disparity rate on law enforcement contact. Question
on data collection standards used to identify Latinos in Dane County. Question on data
reported to the Common Council by the Madison Policy Department as a source to
investigate. Question on how data is being used to build the community court initiative
and only being used as it has been done historically at the end rather than upstream.
Comment on data and how it aligns closely to redlining data. Comment on the data and
conversations are the same, but what will be different and to understand what the
different is. Comment on being cautious on the process and not replicating disparity in
creation of the community court. Comment on difficulty around targeting most disparate
category given services and public/political using data to guide this initiative. Comment
on which data categories are paired with violent crimes and ultimately excluded.