Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One -- Introduction; Disrupting Illegal Firearm Markets; Legislation Related to Firearm Sales and Crime-Gun Investigations; Legal and Illegal Firearm Commerce; The Prospects of Supply-Side Enforcement; Illegal Gun-Market Interventions; Accomplishments of the Los Angeles Case Study; Organization of This Report; Chapter Two -- Development of the Firearms Trace Pattern Analysis Software; Introduction; Background: ATF's Current Firearm-Tracing System; The Firearms Trace Pattern Analysis Software Tool
The Southern California Regional Crime Gun Center (SCRCGC): The Crime-Analysis and Dissemination ProcessSummary and Conclusions; Chapter Three -- New Gun-Buyer-Notification Program; Introduction; Gun Violence in LAPD's 77th Street Area; The Source of Illegal Guns Recovered in the 77th Street Area; The Letter-Campaign Intervention; Results; Summary and Conclusions; Chapter Four -- The Criminal Purchase of Firearm Ammunition; Introduc
Summary
Could a data-driven, problem-solving approach yield new interventions to disrupt local, illegal gun markets serving criminals, gang members, and juveniles in Los Angeles? Law enforcement can analyze patterns in crime-gun data to trace illicit firearm acqu
