Managing the Group Violence Intervention: Using Shooting Scorecards to Track Group Violence

Group shooting scorecards identify the criminal groups that commit the highest number shootings and experience the greatest number of shooting victimizations during a specific time period. With this information, shooting scorecards support the implementation of focused deterrence strategies to prevent group-involved violence. They also ensure that police departments appropriately focus scarce resources on the groups that consistently generate the most gun violence. Managing the Group Violence Intervention: Using Shooting Scorecards to Track Group Violence begins with a brief description of the shooting scorecard concept and its links to problem analysis and performance measurement systems in police departments. It then presents the key steps in the process and associated data quality issues and then details the use of shooting scorecards by the Boston Police Department as an example of the practical applications of this approach.

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Author: Anthony A. Braga, David M. Hureau, and Leigh S. Grossman

Federal Sponsor Agency: COPS

Provider: National Network for Safe Communities

Publication Date: 2014