Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets: A Case by Greg Ridgeway

By Greg Ridgeway

May perhaps a data-driven, problem-solving process yield new interventions to disrupt neighborhood, unlawful gun markets serving criminals, gang participants, and juveniles in l. a.? legislation enforcement can learn styles in crime-gun information to track illicit firearm acquisition, use community-based interventions to stem the unlawful move, and use retail ammunition-purchase files in picking prohibited firearm possessors.

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Development of the Firearms Trace Pattern Analysis Software 15 ness transaction involving the firearm. The objective is to trace the firearm through the chain of commerce to the first-time retail purchaser. At each stage in the tracing process, information is entered into FTS, an NTC-maintained database system that manages all firearm-trace requests, multiple-sale records, and firearms reported stolen from FFLs that are submitted to and processed by the NTC (Pierce and Griffith, 2005). The administrative challenges of managing a national firearm-tracing system are significant.

These are features of gun traces that analysts or investigators have determined are indicative of trafficking, such as short time to crime, an unregistered gun, a gun with an obliterated serial number, or a gun traced to a purchaser who is the source of other traced guns. ATF uses the trafficking indicators to assess whether they should begin building a case. The FTPA’s role is to help ATF analysts develop indicators and search for traces on which a gun-trafficking case might be built. 9. If the trace has indicators of trafficking or suspicious patterns, ATF develops an investigation-referral packet, pulling in information on the purchaser, possessor, FFL, and other entities involved.

Gun Violence in LAPD’s 77th Street Area The 77th Street area police serve a population of approximately 175,000 in a 12-square-mile area. S. Census, Hispanics now represent a slight majority of the population (54 percent). This area is characterized by many social ills including concentrated poverty, single-female–headed households, high unemployment, and violent crime. Among the 18 LAPD policing areas, the 77th Street area consistently ranks first or second in the number of total homicides, with African-Americans being overrepresented among homicide victims and offenders in the area.

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