Audit of Department of Justice's Key Indicators

Audit Report 08-18
March 2008
Office of the Inspector General


Summary of Recommendations

As a result of our audit, we make the following recommendations in our audit report.

We recommend that the FBI:

  1. Revise the key indicator “ Number of Child Pornography Websites or Web Hosts Shut Down,” to accurately measure the FBI’s role and activities.

  2. Develop and implement procedures to ensure that complete and accurate information is obtained to report on the key indicator “Number of High-Impact Internet Fraud Targets Neutralized,” or in the alternative, revise this key indicator.

We recommend that the Civil Rights Division:

  1. Exclude appellate cases from the quarterly and fiscal year information provided to JMD to comply with the statements in the PAR and to avoid over- or understating the percentage of cases favorably resolved for the key indicator “ Percent of Cases Favorably Resolved.”

We recommend that OJP:

  1. Coordinate with the CCDO to present the accurate scope of the performance data in the PAR by listing the correct calendar year that the data covers for the key indicator “Reduction of Homicides Per Site Funded Under the Weed and Seed Program.”

  2. Coordinate with the CCDO to either use data sets that are limited to sites with data for both years or, in the alternative, remove the reduction portion from this key indicator and only report on the number of homicides per Weed and Seed site for the key indicator “Reduction of Homicides Per Site Funded Under the Weed and Seed Program.”

  3. Coordinate with the BJA to develop and implement procedures for collecting and reporting data for a single consecutive 12‑month period or disclose this as a data limitation within the data limitations section of the PAR for the key indicator “Number of Participants in the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program.”

  4. Coordinate with the BJA to develop and implement procedures to ensure that RSAT data is accurately reported in the future for the key indicator “Number of Participants in the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program.”

We recommend that the BOP:

  1. Disclose within the data limitations section of the PAR, the states that do not participate in the FBI’s III, and that the results reported in the PAR do not include all federal and state crimes committed and arrests in these states and Washington, D.C.; in the alternative, revise the key indicator “Comparative Recidivism Rates for FPI Inmates versus Non‑FPI Inmates” to address this data limitation.

  2. Disclose within the data limitations section of the PAR the data lag between the time an inmate is arrested and when the information is entered into the state’s record management system or into SENTRY for the key indicator “Comparative Recidivism Rates for FPI Inmates versus Non-FPI Inmates.”

  3. Evaluate the cause of the FY 2006 overstatement and implement procedures to ensure the rate of assaults in federal prisons per 5,000 inmates is accurately reported in the future for the key indicator “ Rate of Assaults in Federal Prisons (Assaults per 5,000 Inmates).”

We recommend that the FBI; EOUSA; the Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Criminal, Environment and Natural Resources, and Tax Divisions; EOUST, OJP; and BOP:

  1. Examine the accuracy of their MD&A narratives covering the key indicators and verify supporting information necessary to ensure the accuracy of the key indicator performance data. Additionally, component management should notify staff of the significant need for accuracy of the key indicator information presented in the MD&A for the PAR.

We recommend that JMD:

  1. Prepare and issue a formal policy requiring components to provide the supporting performance data information with the annual MD&A submission. Additionally, JMD should develop and implement procedures for examining the performance information submitted by the components in their annual MD&As.



« Previous Table of Contents Next »