CRIMINAL JUSTICE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

January 9, 2008

Administrative Center Room B190

11:30 a.m.

CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order at 11:30 a.m.

PUBLIC COMMENT

There was no public comment. 

CONFERENCE CALL WITH OFFICE OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE REGARDING STATE STATISTICS

A conference call was placed with Derek Veitenheimer from the State of Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance to help clarify the statistics available regarding the number of adult arrests.  There are two types of  law enforcement reporting that are submitted to the State.  UCR – Uniform Crime Reporting, and IBR – Incident Based Reporting.  UCR is summary based, which the majority of the agencies are currently utilizing.  IBR is incident based, which is much more in-depth reporting.  There are @20 agencies that are certified incident based reporting agencies throughout the State, and approximately 20 more are in the testing phase.  Derek indicated that all the data has been converted to the summary UCR format, so all IBR data they receive has been converted.  In incident based reporting, there is no hierarchy rule, so if more than 1 crime occurs on a single incident, all offenses are reported.  For the most part, on summary UCR reporting, you only report the most significant crime. One of the steps in the conversion process is to pull out the most serious offense from the incident.  In Jan. 2007, La Crosse County had three agencies that were certified incident based reporting agencies – Bangor, Campbell and Holmen PD.  All of the 2006 data for La Crosse County and the State of Wisconsin is under the summary Uniform Crime Reporting format.  Parking citations and uniform traffic citations, other than OWI, are not reported.  The 2007 numbers for La Crosse will be available March or April 2008.

The D.A.’s office will check to see what data they have regarding domestic violence cases.

Jane will get the detailed data for the counties that are comparable to La Crosse for the years 2004, 2005, 2006.    

DISCUSSION REGARDING VARIANCES IN ORDINANCE COLLECTIONS

Pam Radtke was present to discuss the stats that the Clerk of Courts office collects.  She keeps stats for all of the criminal caseloads (felonies & misdemeanors).  Pam indicated that felonies and misdemeanors are both down from 2006 to 2007.    Pam will get the number of caseload filings from the other counties comparable to La Crosse (including felonies, misdemeanors, criminal traffic).

CJMC RESPONSE TO LIMITED RISK MANAGEMENT

The December CJMC meeting discussed Limited Risk Management.  The CJMC tentatively agreed with the philosophy, but asked the Executive Committee to start the process by trying to rank crimes by some sort of category (high, medium, low) and connect it with a risk and needs assessment.  It could give the courts some suggestions for decision making.  Jane and Judge Gonzalez will prioritize the crimes in the order that they feel appropriate just as a starting point, and then bring it back to this group.  Part 1 of the rating will be the seriousness of the crime and Part 2 will be connecting it to the risk and needs assessment.

APPROVAL OF DECEMBER 12, 2007 MINUTES OF THE CJMC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

MOTION by Hammes/Levine to approve the December 12, 2007 minutes of the CJMC Executive Committee carried unanimously (Helgeson & Doyle excused).

Next Meeting Date: February 13th at 11:30 a.m. in Room 3220.

ADJOURN

The above minutes may be approved, amended or corrected at the next Council meeting.

Recorded by Terri Pavlic