Serving Victims

This section presents information about victimization, victim characteristics, and the District Attorney’s (DA) Office’s engagement with victims, witnesses, and the general community. 

Why is this important? Understanding the victim population, providing effective services, and timely engagement helps develop the mutual transparency and trust needed to advance community safety and well-being.

Important Note Regarding Victim Demographic Information: Demographic information about our victims lags far behind other areas of data collection. Our office is choosing to share this information despite several known shortcomings in data collection practices so that we can track and document improvement in these processes.

Our case management system has a "default" value of "Another Race/Ethnicity". This value appears when no other value has been entered. As a result, it is likely dramatically over-reported in our current data.

Indicators

Below are a set of indicators that provide additional context about serving victims. These indicators help the DA's Office ensure they are supporting crime victims with timely outreach, ensuring victims' voices are heard, and preventing future victimization. 

Our aim is to ensure that victims receive satisfactory outcomes regardless of their socioeconomic status.

Our office will aggressively prosecute violent crimes committed against children. We are committed to working with law enforcement and other local partners, such as local child advocacy centers, to identify strategies for prevention.

Evidentiary difficulties make it challenging to prove these cases, but our office is committed to aggressively prosecuting sexual crimes against children.

Note

• Underlying data counts for each chart can be accessed through this link.