The Beginning of a Statewide Prosecution Data Initiative in Wisconsin
Prosecutors are expected to take proactive, engaged responses to community problems, address disparities in justice outcomes, build greater trust through community engagement, and increase prosecutorial transparency and accountability. The Wisconsin Prosecution Data Dashboards project works with District Attorneys' offices across the state to increase data-driven decision-making, raise awareness of justice system disparities, and increase engagement with and accountability to the public. Collectively, the offices participating in the project represent just 6 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties—and provide data for 25% of the state’s population.
6 District Attorneys' Offices Committed to Data and Innovation in Prosecution
Explore data dashboards for each of the participating District Attorneys' Offices by clicking on the map. We hope that giving communities access to information about case filing, outcomes, and performance indicators will lead to greater accountability and improve the fairness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system.
Connecting Data to Decision Making
Releasing Dashboards to Increase Accountability
Assessing Disparities to Ensure Equity
Data dashboards include information in five areas: charging and filing; defendant characteristics; case disposition; sentencing; and prosecutorial performance metrics.
Using Data to Drive Action
The Wisconsin Prosecution Data Dashboards project is designed to support robust data-driven prosecutorial work.
Prosecutorial Performance Indicators
The Wisconsin Prosecution Data Dashboards project is rooted in a national model, the Prosecutorial Performance Indicators Project (PPI), which has a menu of 55 indicators to measure performance toward three goals: capacity & efficiency, community safety & well-being, and fairness & justice. To learn more, visit www.theppis.org
A Statewide Model
The Wisconsin Prosecution Data Dashboards project is based on successful outcomes and lessons learned in Colorado. Read more in this article about how our work in Colorado has impacted prosecutors’ offices. We hope that our insights and lessons learned can support other researchers and practitioners interested in building the capacity of criminal justice practitioners to use data to inform decision making.
Project Partners
This project is a partnership between the Prosecutorial Performance Indicators Project (PPI), Mindful Metrics, the Center for Criminal Justice at Loyola University Chicago, and the District Attorneys' Offices in Jefferson, La Crosse, Milwaukee, Rock, Vilas, and Winnebago Counties.
The project is rooted in a national model, the Prosecutorial Performance Indicators Project (PPI) and supported by Microsoft and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
