Texas DWI Charges Reported by Agencies

What it shows

Shows the DWI charges that Texas law enforcement agencies reported to the Department of Public Safety, year by year. A charge is not a person: someone charged twice counts twice. The year view shows the state total, the change from year to year and how many agencies had a charge listed, and can set up to two counties or agencies beside each other. The county view ranks counties by count or per 100,000 residents. The agency views list agencies, with search and filters by type and county, or lay all agencies out against all years in one grid. Select a county or agency for its yearly line and figures. The Department prints a row only for an agency with at least one charge, so where an agency has no number for a year, the chart leaves a gap instead of drawing a zero.

How to read it

• The line is the total reported by all listed agencies. The dashed segment and hollow dot mark a preliminary year that may change. Click any year to look at that year in the other views.
• The small bars underneath show how many agencies had a charge listed each year. A missing number means no charge was listed for that agency in that year, not that a number was withheld.
• In the county view, bars rank counties by charges or per 100,000 residents. State agencies, almost all of them the Department of Public Safety itself, are not assigned to a county in the report, so county counts leave them out; very small counties get no rate.
• In the agency-by-year grid, each cell is one agency in one year. Shading is the same for every row, or relative to the agency’s own highest year. A hatched cell means no charge was listed.
• Charge counts reflect enforcement effort as well as behavior, and an agency’s name can change between reports, so a few renamed agencies appear as two series.

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