OJA Programs
Criminal Justice
Edward Byrne Memorial/Justice Assistance Grants (JAG); Multi-jurisdictional Drug Task Forces; Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN); Beat Patrol; Treatment Alternatives and Diversion (TAD); Drug Endangered Children (DEC); Digital Recording of Custodial Interrogations (DRCI); Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners Program (RSAT)
Homeland Security
Homeland Security Grants; School Preparedness; Radio Interoperability; Citizen Corps;Infrastructure Protection; Urban Area Security Initiative; 1033 Surplus Equipment Program
Juvenile Justice
Governor’s Juvenile Justice Commission; Block Grants; Juvenile Justice-related Grants; Disproportionate Minority Contact; What Works, Wisconsin!
Statistical Analysis Center
Uniform Crime and Arrest Reports (UCR) and Data, Incident-Based Reporting (IBR)
Violence Against Women Program
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Grants and Programs
Wisconsin Justice Information Sharing
Justice Gateway; Justice Information Sharing
Special Initiatives
Traffic Stop Data Collection
In the past decade, two gubernatorial bodies have examined racial profiling and racial disparities in Wisconsin’s criminal justice system. Both groups recommended collection of racial data when a traffic stop is made as one means to determine the extent to which people of different races receive different treatment by law enforcement. OJA is now in the process of promulgating an administrative rule on the collection of traffic stop data.
Campus Safety
Shortly after the shootings at Virginia Tech in April, 2007, Governor Jim Doyle established a Task Force on Campus Safety to focus on ensuring the safety of college and university students in Wisconsin. The task force worked throughout the summer to compile best practices in campus safety universities, colleges, and other higher education institutions in Wisconsin and across the nation.
Racial Disparities
More than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their twenties, 1 in every 8 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by the disproportionate impact of the "war on drugs," in which three-fourths of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color. In Wisconsin, just 6 percent of the state's population is black but nearly half of all prison inmates are African-American. Governor Jim Doyle established the Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities in the Wisconsin Justice System to study and recommend solutions for racial disparities in each step of the criminal justice continuum.
SAFE Initiative - Sex Offender Apprehension
Sex Offender Registration Compliance
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