Gun Violence

Join the Justice Clearinghouse for the webinar “Overlaying Digital Intelligence and Ballistics Technology to Enhance Investigations” on Wednesday, July 18 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ET. During this webinar, participants will learn how law enforcement agencies are using technology to gather and examine evidence – both physical and digital – to solve gun-related violent crimes.

Webinar - Overlaying Digital Intelligence and Ballistics Technology to Enhance Investigations

Today’s investigations into violent crimes, especially gun-related crimes, have become more time-consuming due to factors including increases in the sources and quantities of digital and ballistics evidence. These new investigative challenges are stretching small and large departments alike. To solve these increasingly complex cases, law enforcement agencies are overlaying innovative technologies that help investigators gather and analyze both physical and digital evidence more effectively and with greater efficiency.

Successful Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence Webinar

On February 28, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI) program will present a webinar on “Successful Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence.” This webinar will focus on the use of offender-based strategies and crime intelligence to target gun-related violence, highlighting successful SPI sites addressing this issue.

Join the Justice Clearinghouse for the webinar “Forensics at the Speed of Crime” on Thursday, September 28 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. ET. During this webinar, participants will learn about transformational forensics, which promotes the reliable, comprehensive, and timely access to shooting intelligence and evidence after a gun-related incident.

Webinar - Forensics at the Speed of Crime

Transformational forensics is a concept in which there is a commitment on the part of forensic science laboratories to collaborate with clients and stakeholders to identify needed change and creating a vision to guide that change so that our communities can become safer places for all to have an opportunity to reach their potential. With respect to gun-related crime, the chief need for the investigators is to have reliable, comprehensive, and timely intelligence with respect to the shooting activity that is occurring in the streets, an activity that is best determined using forensics.