SMART Approaches to Reducing Gun Violence

This Spotlight report reviews the common strategies that police have employed across nine sites. These evidence-based strategies, which reflect core tenets of the Smart Policing Initiative (SPI), are grounded in a risk-focused framework that recognizes the importance of targeting efforts on the places, people, and times at greatest threat of violence.


Author: Anthony A. Braga, Daniel W. Webster, Michael D. White, and Hildy Saizow

Federal Sponsor Agency: BJA

Provider: Smart Policing Initiative

Publication Date: 2014

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