GVPanorama: NPI Releases Report on Strengthening Lost and Stolen Firearm Reporting Policies
GVPanorama: NPI Releases Report on Strengthening Lost and Stolen Firearm Reporting Policies
The 40-page report is the first known of its kind
While on the search for recent gun violence prevention news for our weekly "Friday Finds” feature, we often come across editorials, personal stories, or wider-lens articles that don’t necessarily fit into a current events window. With GVPanorama, we will highlight some of these thought-provoking pieces.
Established in 1970, the National Policing Institute is “an American non-profit organization dedicated to advancing policing through innovation and independent scientific research.”
In April, the organization released Keeping Firearms Out of the Wrong Hands: Addressing Theft and Diversion Through Reporting of Lost and Stolen Firearms. “The 40-page report… reflects a culmination of research, including a review of literature and state policies and interviews with policing executives, investigators, and other experts throughout the United States.”
The report aims to “examine the design and implementation of crime policies rather than solely focusing on the effects or outcomes of the policy.”
“Getting these policies and practices right is critical in our efforts to reduce gun violence,” added Tim Daly, Program Director for Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform at the Joyce Foundation. “NPI’s focus… offers important recommendations for strengthening these approaches at a time when new research shows how big of a problem lost and stolen firearms are becoming in our communities….”
“This study was funded by the Joyce Foundation, a private, nonpartisan philanthropy that invests in public policies and strategies related to culture, democracy, education and economic mobility, environment, gun violence prevention and justice, reform, and journalism.”