Johnson County Justice Center

Justice Center Has Global Reach

Through our growing base of supporters, and by developing our website as an online resource for those in justice services, we’re beginning to have a global impact. The maps below show some of the recent visitors to the website. Click any map for a larger view.

This national and global recognition helps bring positive attention to the proactive and preventative approaches we’re taking here in Iowa City and Johnson County. It’s how our County has come to have one of the lowest incarceration rates in the world (and falling). [source]

Other communities are interested to learn how investing in education social services up stream can save millions of dollars down stream in averted law enforcement, corrections, and incarceration costs.

At a time when the Justice Department and other government agencies are looking for ways to reduce incarceration, people are looking to communities like Johnson County who have a demonstrated track record of having one of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.

Thanks to everyone who is making a difference!

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Responding to Criticism – Q&A

It’s come to our attention that a few misinformed or intensionally malicious people have been making false accusations about the above maps, presumably in an attempt to discredit this article and this website. So, the following Q&A has been created to address the various false accusations that are being maliciously spread:

Website stats and analytics tools (such as QuantCast, Google Analytics, or Statcounter) have been used for many years by thousands of website owners to determine the interest level that people have in their website content. It’s fair to say that website traffic is one of the primary metrics used to evaluate a website. You can learn more by reading the Wikipedia article on website analytics.

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