CRIMINAL JUSTICE TREND DATA FOOTNOTES
Tables 1 and 1A- Reported Crimea and Clearances (Pages 5 and 6)
Aggravated assault: A law change in 19136 required reporting domestic violence
incidents as criminal conduct. 1990 aggravated assault counts for Oakland P.D. were
underreported due to programming problems.
Table 2: Supplemental Detail for Selected Reported Crimes (Pages 7 and 8)
Aggravated assault: A law change in 1986 required reporting domestic violence
incidents as criminal conduct.
Tables 3A, 36, and 3C: Felony Arrests (Pages 9-11)
Homicide and Assault: Assault with intent to commit murder is included in some
homicide statistics because of a 1981 law that repealed Penal Code Section 217. As a
result, homicide arrests from 1981 to 1985 may be slightly inflated, while assaults may be
underreported.
Assault. A law change in 1986 required reporting domestic violence incidents as
criminal conduct.
Tables 4A, 48, and 4C: Misdemeanor Arrests (Pages 12-14)
Disorderly conduct: The 1992 decrease can be attributed to a change in policy
by the San Diego Police Department.
Table 5: Total Law Enforcement Dispositions (Page 15)
To other agency: The inflated figures for 1986-1990 for adults were the result
of a programming error in the Los Angeles Police Department system.
Tables 6 and 6A- Dispositions of Adult Felony Arrests (Pages 16 and 17)
Disposition data: Adult felony disposition data for individual counties and
agencies are not available for 1993. The recorded number of total felony arrest
dispositions in 1993 is lower than normal because of budget constraints that have created
backlogs in disposition document processing at the Department of Justice. 1991 and 1992
data include dispositions reported to the Department of Justice through August of the
following year in order to increase the level of reporting by individual agencies. 1983
through 1990 include dispositions reported to the Department of Justice through April of
the following years. To meet publication deadlines, Crime and Delinquency in
California disposition tables continue to be based on data through April.
Petition to revoke probation: Prior to 1988, data for this category were included
in "Complaints denied" and cannot be extracted.
Combined cases: Prior to 1992 data for this category were included in
"complaints denied" and cannot be extracted. Combined cases are cases declined
in favor of other counts/cases.
Diversions dismissed. Prior to 1988, data for this category were included with
"Dismissed" and cannot be extracted.
Legislation, effective January 1, 1992, provides the option of sentencing noncapital
felony cases in lower or superior court when there is a plea of guilty or nolo contendere
in lower court. The "other" category includes no sentence given, sentence
suspended and sentence stayed.
Table 7: Adult Probation (Page 18)
Total caseloads: Diversion cases are not included.
Other. Includes deceased, transferred to another county, sentence vacated, and
appeal approved.
Table 8: Persons Held in Local Adult Facilities (Page 19)
Held in adult facility: Counts for each category in this table were taken the
fourth Thursday in September of each year.
Table 9: Full-time Personnel (Page 20)
Total personnel: Law enforcement personnel are obtained in a one-day count
taken on October 31. Probation department counts are taken January 1, while all other
personnel counts are taken June 30. Corrections and Youth Authority are fiscal year counts
from the Governor's Budget. In some counties, the fluctuation in 1988 and 1989 sheriff's
personnel is the result of the exclusion and subsequent inclusion of custodial personnel.
The result of the 1985 revision of the "Number of Full-Time Law Enforcement
Employees" reporting form may be discontinuity within some jurisdictions in the
reported number of full-time law enforcement personnel for 1985-1987 in comparison with
previous years.
Probation/Other. In 1985, a survey form was developed by the Bureau of Criminal
Statistics to collect probation department data. Because of the new data collection
method, additional classifications may be included in the "other" category.
Note: Personnel for state agencies are shown only in the Statewide
Criminal Justice
Profile.
Table 10: Criminal Justice Expenditures (Page 21)
Grand total: All amounts shown in this table have been rounded and are shown
in thousands. Expenditures include salaries and benefits, services, and supplies. Building
construction, capital expenditures and monies derived from federal and state grants are
not included. In fiscal year 1984/85, the State Controller's Off ice revised its method of
data collection. These revisions impacted various subcategories.
Notes: Expenditures for state agencies are shown only in the Statewide
Criminal
Justice Profile.
Expenditure data are
based on fiscal year, personnel data on calendar year.
Expenditure data for
the Department of Justice and other regulatory agencies
are not included.
Statewide expenditure
data may differ from those published in "Crime and
Delinquency in
California, 1993" since the statewide totals are based on the
sum of independently
rounded county data.
Notes: Rates on California Crime Index crimes, larceny-theft and arson
crimes, and arrests are
not computed for populations which are less than 100,000.
Rates may not balance
because of independent rounding.
Percents may not total
100.0 because of independent rounding.
With the exception of
clearance rates (Table 1A), percent distributions are not calculated
when the total
number upon which those percents are based is less than 50.
See known data
limitations and characteristics for additional information located in
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