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Research on FTAs from 1977
Key Takeaways
- Of the 566 people ROR’d at arraignment, nearly 18% (101 people) missed at least one scheduled court date, with a total of 124 total missed appearances. Nine percent of those who FTA’d missed the first scheduled court date. Therefore, FTA at the first court date accounted for 42% of all missed court dates in the study.
- Of people who missed at least one court date (101 people), 84.2% of them (85 people) missed only one court date and 15.8% of them (16 people) FTA’d more than once. This includes 9 people who missed two court dates, 6 who missed three court dates, and one who missed four court dates.
- Those who FTA’d once accounted for two-thirds of the total missed appearances. Those who FTA’d more than once accounted for one-third of all 125 missed court appearances.
- Of the 1,400 pretrial court dates scheduled post-arraignment during the week in May 1976, 125 resulted in the issuance of a bench warrant, an FTA rate of 8.9%.
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