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Here’s One Four-Letter Word That Isn’t Dirty
By jjie.org - Judge Steven Teske
Published: 05/22/2013

For some, data is a dirty four-letter word when juvenile justice reform is attempted. Reform means change and data is the evidence supporting change. This makes data an easy target among those who resist change.

The resistance may create a paradoxical situation by treating data –probably the single most important tool driving successful reform — as a profane and abusive contrivance used by reformers to mislead people to get their way. What is essential to explain the need for reform becomes instead something that can’t be trusted.

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