by CivicMeter 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 CivicMeter 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 CivicMeter 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 CivicMeter 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 CivicMeter 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...
by CivicMeter Staff | Apr 25, 2019 | Criminal Justice
Doctors operating out of ‘Pill Mills’ has been a prime reason for the opioid epidemic in the US. Yet the days of freely-prescribed pain medication may be over soon. Teams of data analysts from the Justice Department are firing up their computers and are crunching data...
