Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearm Markets

Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearm Markets
Author: Greg Ridgeway
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0833044788

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 acquisition, use community-based interventions to stem the illegal flow, and use retail ammunition-purchase records in identifying prohibited firearm possessors.