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Gun Violence Reduction

The proliferation of violent crime in the United States and the criminal acquisition and use of firearms are critical issues for law enforcement. The IACP Gun Violence Reduction Initiative includes two projects to address gun violence.

IACP and the Bureau of Justice Assistance Initiatives

The IACP’s partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to improve law enforcement’s capacity to interdict firearms trafficking and disrupt gang activity has a history of success and steady growth. The IACP with support from the BJA provides no-cost training and technical assistance to the law enforcement community to improve their gun violence reduction and prosecution efforts. In collaboration with other federal and national Project Safe Neighborhoods partners, the IACP provides site specific, regional technical assistance sessions to support PSN, a multi year federal initiative through the Department of Justice. For more information on no cost training, technical assistance, products and services through the IACP and BJA initiatives, click here.

IACP and The Joyce Foundation Initiatives

This project supported by the Joyce Foundation, a Chicago-based organization that promotes programs and strategies that will aid in reducing gun violence in the Great Lakes States. Issues of great concern to both Joyce and the IACP include: illegal gun trafficking, officer safety, domestic and family violence, illicit drug markets and their tie-in to firearms and gang-related violence. The IACP and The Joyce Foundation held the Great Lakes States Summit on Firearms Violence, April 9-11, 2007 in Chicago, IL. The 2008-2009 initiatives include several Law Enforcement Leadership Roundtables on Gun Violence held in critical cities in the Great Lakes region. For more information on the GLS Summit and on IACP and The Joyce Foundation joint initiatives, click here.

Firearms resources, statistics and no cost training materials

This includes FREE resources, newsletter subscriptions, and links to statistical firearms data that is important for all police officials.

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Contact

For more information on the IACP’s policy and programmatic work concerning Gun Violence, please contact:

Nancy Turner, Senior Program Manager, at turnern@theiacp.org,

Amy Lightcap, Project Manager, at lightcap@theiacp.org, or

Whitney Kujawa, Policy and Training Coordinator at kujawa@theiacp.org