Bremerton’s ‘Considerably Larger’ Misdemeanor Caseload
August 25th, 2009 by josh farley
Numbers almost always make a story better.
I forgot — perhaps simply overlooked — this truth when writing Monday afternoon about Bremerton’s plans to prosecute its own misdemeanor cases rather than have the Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Office do it.
Commenter nsultan pointed out that I used the phrase “considerably larger” when writing about how much bigger the Bremerton Municipal Court caseload is when compared to fellow its fellow Kitsap cities of Port Orchard, Bainbridge Island and Poulsbo.
Shame on me.
So here are the actual numbers so you can see for yourself just how much “considerably larger” is. Which is why numbers serve stories so very well. I got these from the Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Office’s 2007 annual report, which you can download here.
Misdemeanor Cases in:
Unincorporated Kitsap County
Total referred by law enforcement: 4,424
Total filed by by the prosecutor’s office: 3,503
Bremerton
Total referred by law enforcement: 3,228
Total filed by by the prosecutor’s office: 2,368
Bainbridge Island
Total referred by law enforcement: 520
Total filed by by the prosecutor’s office: 428
Port Orchard
Total referred by law enforcement: 549
Total filed by by the prosecutor’s office: 434
Poulsbo
Total referred by law enforcement: 433
Total filed by by the prosecutor’s office: 306
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