Public Safety Data

The Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention and Policy uses Microsoft Power BI to translate complex data into interactive data dashboards to enhance policy decisions, promote data transparency, and provide an opportunity for deeper exploration and analysis to the Governor and his administration, as well as other policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and the general public. The Office partners with local, State, and federal organizations, through existing memorandums and legislative requirements, to collect, analyze, and present data in a meaningful way. Data is also compiled for an interactive grant map to display organizations in Maryland that are active subrecipients of grant awards from the Office. Support for several projects described below is provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, through the State Justice Statistics Program. 

Crime in Maryland 

The Office facilitates statewide crime data analysis and sharing to generate effective policies and solutions. 

Law Enforcement

The Office works with partnering law enforcement agencies to facilitate data collection efforts to increase public safety, identify accountability, promote transparency, and ensure compliance with mandated requirements.

DNA Evidence Collection	In Custody Deaths
Interrogation Room	SWAT Team Deployments
Race-Based Traffic Stop	Seizure and Forfeiture
Funded Diversion Programs	Violence Intervention and Prevention
Use of Force Settlements	Police Employees
Training, Recruitment, and Accountability	Facial Recognition Technology
Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit Tracking	To Be Announced
	*To Be Announced*

Youth Justice

The Office receives data from public health and public safety partners, as well as open source resources, to provide insight on overall well-being of youth and families in Maryland and youth interacting with the criminal justice system.

Corrections

The Office works with local correctional facilities to ensure compliance with mandated reports. The Office is also committed to providing outcomes resulting from the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a nationwide data-driven approach, to improve public safety, reduce corrections spending, and reinvest savings in strategies and programming that reduce crime as well as recidivism. 

Courts

The Office utilizes data scraped from the Maryland Judiciary Case Search, a public resource to access court records from the Maryland Judiciary, to provide transparency on trends in case outcomes and criminal charges.  

Behavioral Health

The Centers of Excellence advise the Office on efforts that support Maryland communities in improving the criminal justice system’s response to individuals with substance use disorders and mental illness. Their efforts aim to reduce the incarceration of individuals with behavioral health needs and strengthen connections to appropriate treatment services. In this role, the Centers collaborate with state and local partners to complete jurisdictional Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) mapping reports and to implement crisis intervention model programs. 

To further support this work, the National Drug Use Dashboard is included in this space to illustrate trends in drug use across the state and to complement ongoing efforts to improve the response to and treatment of individuals with behavioral health needs.