We have produced a variety of reports providing criminal justice stakeholders with key metrics to help them understand and evaluate their local criminal justice systems. Among other things, we have produced statewide and county level data on use of citations by law enforcement officers, use of summonses and warrants by magistrates, imposition of different types of conditions of pretrial release, and local jail occupancy numbers. In this report, we provide statewide and county level information on number of criminal charges, charged defendants, and criminal cases. As with our other reports, we make no judgment about the data presented; our goal simply is to provide data to inform stakeholders. Our full spreadsheet of results (here) has three main tabs showing data for (1) all offenses; (2) felonies; and (3) misdemeanors. Two additional tabs break down misdemeanor offenses into non-traffic misdemeanors and traffic misdemeanors. Each tab presents the following information at the state and county level: Total charged offenses Charged offenses per 100,000 population Total charged defendants Total charged cases Changes in these data points, from 2018 to 2019 As expected, the number of charges in the state’s urban counties is higher than the number of charges in rural jurisdictions. To allow for more robust cross-county comparison, we added the data point of charges per 100,000 in population. Thus, while Mecklenburg County leads the state in total number of charges in 2019 (154,619), it is in the bottom 10 counties statewide with respect to charges per 100,000 population (see Table 1 below). As [...]
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