State Court Prosecutors in Small Districts, 2001

摘要

In 2001 across the Nation an estimated 9 in 10 prosecutors' offices served a district with a population of less than 250,000. These 2,113 prosecutors' offices represented almost 40% of the Nation's population. Three-quarters or 1,581 of these offices had a full-time chief prosecutor. Results from the National Survey of Prosecutors (NSP) indicate that these offices with a fulltime chief prosecutor closed over 893,000 felony cases and had combined budgets totaling over $1.1 billion for prosecutorial functions. The median number of felony cases closed per office was 288, and the median budget was $379,000. The 2001 NSP was a census of all chief prosecutors that tried felony cases in State courts of general jurisdiction.