NCJ Number
167805
Date Published
1994
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This booklet explains a police policy and strategy for reducing illegal guns in New York City as the first of the major police strategies to be designed and launched by the Giuliani administration to reduce violent crime, disorder, and fear in the city.
Abstract
The discussion notes that a substantial majority of city residents are afraid of violent crime despite the reduction of violent crime in 1993 to its lowest level since 1985. The police of the New York Police Department as of March 7, 1994 will be to refocus and expand investigative and patrol resources, revise and expand training, obtain and deploy technologically advanced equipment, and obtain the support of the public and the housing and transit police to address illegal guns and gun violence. Actions will include specific investigative steps by precinct-based detectives in all cases of arrests involving firearms, an increase in personnel for the joint firearms task force, added training courses for detectives, and the purchase of computerized system for comparing spent bullets and discharged shells. List of additional actions