Secure Gun Storage
Approach City leaders and their partners should encourage and educate gun owners and the general public about secure gun storage to make their homes and communities safer. They should also provide gun owners with the tools to securely store their guns. Such education, outreach, and tools are essential to protecting… Read More
Educate gun owners and the general public about secure gun storage to make their homes and communities safer.
Safe Passage
Approach An estimated 3 million children are exposed to gun violence, directly or indirectly, every year.1Everytown analysis derives this number by multiplying the share of children (aged 0 to 17) who are exposed to shootings per year (4 percent) by the total child population of the… Read More
Deploy school employees, volunteers, and/or professionals to provide students with safe routes to and from school in high-crime neighborhoods.
Problem-Solving Hot Spots
Approach Hot spots policing is a law enforcement strategies that focuses on small land areas with high crime rates. To better address and prevent gun violence, law enforcement agencies focus their resources on very specific locations in a community or neighborhood. By focusing on solving problems in small areas with… Read More
Utilize data and deploy law enforcement resources to the small geographic areas with the highest rates of gun violence.