City Gun Violence Reduction Insight Portal
CityGRIP is an online clearinghouse of data-informed gun violence reduction strategies created by Everytown for Gun Safety
The Essentials
Essential practices are recommended for every city and highlight strategies that enhance the data-informed work that your jurisdiction is already doing.
Custom Results
Custom results highlight practices that may be best suited for particular jurisdiction types or to address specific types of gun violence.
Build your blueprint
Use the filters to create a custom blueprint for gun violence reduction for your city. The more filters you select the more comprehensive your blueprint. Your blueprint will include ‘Essentials’ noted with a check mark that we recommend for every city.
Tracking & Analytics
Crime Gun Intelligence Centers
Establish multi-agency law enforcement partnerships to collect, analyze, and manage evidence related to guns used in crimes.
The Essentials
Tracking & Analytics
Track Gun Violence
Collect and analyze fatal and non-fatal shooting data to monitor gun violence, target resources, and inform policy and program decisions.
Tracking & Analytics
Mayor’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention
Establish a centralized office to coordinate key stakeholders and strategies to effectively and sustainably reduce gun violence.
Tracking & Analytics
Gunshot Detection
Invest in audio-sensing technology to alert law enforcement to when and where a gun has been fired.
Tracking & Analytics
Open Data and Transparency
Share law enforcement and city data with the community to build trust and improve community-based services.
The Essentials
Prevention
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Transform public spaces where crime occurs into safe, community-centered places.
Case Studies
Philadelphia
Prevention
Domestic Violence Danger and Lethality Assessments
Implement assessments in domestic violence cases to identify survivors who are at high-risk of becoming homicide victims.
Prevention
Early Intervention Systems
Implement systems to identify officers at-risk of engaging in improper conduct or excessive use of force and address behaviors.
Prevention
Safe Passage
Deploy school employees, volunteers, and/or professionals to provide students with safe routes to and from school in high-crime neighborhoods.
The Essentials
Prevention
Secure Gun Storage
Educate gun owners and the general public about secure gun storage to make their homes and communities safer.
Prevention
Extreme Risk Law Implementation
Implement laws at the local level through cross-agency coordination, public awareness campaigns, and training.
Prevention
NICS Denials Investigations
Investigate background check denials to identify individuals who may be at-risk of committing violence.
Intervention
Disarm Domestic Abusers
Implement surrender and enforcement protocols to disarm domestic abusers who are not legally allowed to possess guns.
Intervention
Family Justice Centers
Support domestic violence and gun violence survivors through colocation of holistic services.
Intervention
Focused Deterrence Programs
Convene law enforcement, social service providers, and community members to provide social supports to group-involved individuals.
Intervention
Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs
Deploy case managers in hospitals to coordinate wraparound services for survivors of gunshot wounds to reduce retaliation and re-injury.
Intervention
Street Outreach
Deploy credible messengers to identify conflict, intervene to prevent violence, and provide social services to high-risk individuals.
Intervention
Intimate Partner Violence Intervention
Convene law enforcement, social service providers, and community members to provide support to survivors and deter abusers from engaging in violence.
Intervention
Violence Reduction Fellowships
Provide intensive social services and financial opportunity to individuals at high-risk of committing violent offenses.
The Essentials
Response
Trace Every Crime Gun
Develop investigative leads by submitting every crime gun to the ATF’s National Tracing Center for analysis.
The Essentials
Response
Submit Crime Gun Ballistics
Develop investigative leads by submitting ballistic evidence to the FBI’s National Integrated Ballistic Information Network for analysis.
The Essentials
Response
Multi-Discipline Homicide & Shooting Incident Reviews
Convene stakeholders to review homicide and shooting incidents and develop intervention and prevention strategies.
Intervention
Problem-Solving Hot Spots
Utilize data and deploy law enforcement resources to the small geographic areas with the highest rates of gun violence.
What a useful tool and way to learn about the strategies that work to reduce gun violence. This will have great value for Mayors and community members across the nation. Thank you.