Tracking information system. Thank you commissioner. Thank you. If i can show you the Domestic Violence dashboard, these are four reporter markup, dv cases, arrested and bailed; dv cases arrested and bailed by zip code; dv cases sentenced vs. Dismissed; and dv cases convicted whether felony or misdemeanor. For the first report, if you look at the chart, this report will show by fiscal year the number of cases. When you zoom in on the year you can see by month but the number of dv cases are, and my by days if you further zoom in. This is nonproduction sample data. This is mocking up for presentation purposes. If you look at this, this is for the period jan. 1, 2012, through dec. 4, 2012. By zip code you can see where the high incidence are. You can see 94103, 224 cases, and so on. This portal will also allow you to change the dates that you are looking at. If you are interested in fiscal year versus calendar year, if youre interested in a particular month you can change the date and see
Requires that we contact every single victim personally and we do that the attorney. Jean goes to the file, gets a round of calls, she assigns them to the attorney, they give around calls, and we try to maintain the level of communication with the victim and bring them in to the victim advocates who will be to the victim either at the hall of justice or other places, often in peoples homes or in another safe place that they feel is appropriate. We really try to be accessible and available to the victims in a way that is most comfortable to them. However in the process, as we have particularly seen in the last less than six months the change in the public defenders assignment of the cases, our caseload makes it almost impossible to keep that level of touch with the victims and we are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of victims that are uninterested in proceeding when we arrive at the point of trial. For us, we know from having done this work with lowercase lows that when we have
With the advocacy organizations of those programs providing Services Including shelter and beyond, that first link really comes through the District Attorneys Office. Unless the victims themselves call those agencies. But certainly you are all helping to assist if persons want that type of support. I think that i would have to attribute that to a joint effort by the scu unit as well as the District Attorneys Office. The first point of real contact that dv victims have are the inspectors and svu. Once inspectors make the initial contact that is where the trust begins. Once that trust is established it is turned over to our office where our attorneys try to maintain that trust. Honestly, with a number of attorneys that we have it is very difficult to maintain that. As we know it is not just the perpetrators who continue to have power and control over the victims but there are families and relatives out there for the defendants who also apply a lot of pressure on the victims. I think that
Pieces of evidence floating or a longtime. I imagine everyone is trying to get the bad guy. There are pieces floating around, not everything came together. Thankfully to the dogged persistence of especially when linda young, being able to pull the pieces together we are pretty much there. There will be more tweaks coming along. Good evening commissioners. Thank you for inviting the city Administrators Office. My name is linda young, deputy city administrator. I will discuss quickly the justis project. The transfer of function to the city of ministers Administrators Office which occurred in march, 2011. Our mission is to support the criminal Justice Department and need to share information in compliance. The justis project is to provide sharing data get abilities, provide individual Case Management system to address departmental Business Needs for the Police Department, the Sheriff Department, District Attorneys Office, public defender, adult probation and to connect the court system. T
So one interpreter may translate the word one way. Say, push. Another interpreter may interpret the same word saying it was a hit. We now have two inconsistent statements. One of the things i see in trial all the time, rightfully so, the defense is doing their job. They are pointing out inconsistencies. We can argue that they are not inconsistencies because of language barriers but it depends on how the jury will see that. When we are presenting cases to the jury they have in their mind that the victim was inconsistent. First she said it was a hit, no she says it is a push. A third interpreter is saying it was a slap now that shes testifying on the stand. Which is it . Beyond a reasonable doubt, is complicated. The other issue is when the victims dont come in to testify. Its even more of a barrier for us to get past all of the language issues to be able to bring any of the others out in trial. It is very difficult. Thank you so much jean. I am sure that the people who are cramming for