Posted on 06/11/2018 4:38:06 AM PDT by from occupied ga
The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a Washington-based think tank, on Friday released their Action Plan to Reduce Gun Violence following a Thursday meeting with the nation’s big-city police chiefs.
"The recommendations recognize that solving the gun violence problem is not the responsibility of one entity or one level of government," the recommendation guide said. "There is a role for everyone on the gun issue: individuals (legal gun owners and non-gun owners alike); law enforcement personnel; prosecutors; judges; state governments; the federal government; family and friends of people who may be in crisis; researchers; the philanthropic community; and the community at large. The recommendations reflect this shared responsibility."
When coming up with the action plans, PERF asked executive members for their input. They then followed up with interviews of police chiefs, sheriffs, and other subject matter experts and reading through current gun violence literature and pamphlets.
According to PERF, these are the actions that will have the biggest influence on reducing gun violence:
1. Keep guns out of the hands of people who are legally prohibited from owning them by:
• Strengthening the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by implementing part of the Fix NICS Act, which would require a more complete, timely, and standardized reporting of criminal FBI convictions to the system.
• Requiring background checks for all private sales and transfers.
• Closing the "boyfriend loophole," so domestic abusers who were not married to their victims do not have access to firearms.
• Increasing the length of time during which background checks can be completed, so as to minimize “delayed denial” situations.
2. We can prevent future killings by deterring people from illegally carrying firearms today.
• States should enact swift, certain, and proportional punishments for those charged with illegal possession of a firearm and other gun crimes.
• Penalties should be modest for first offenses, and should increase significantly for each subsequent offense. The purpose is not to incarcerate large numbers of offenders for long periods of time, but to convey a clear message that illegal carrying of firearms will not be tolerated. The goal is to break up the common pattern of repeated arrests for gun possession, with little or no consequences, eventually leading to an arrest for a homicide or other serious gun crime, with severe consequence.
• Accountability measures should be supported by an education campaign alerting the public to the consequences of illegally carrying firearm.
• Law enforcement agencies should work closely with state and local prosecutors, early in the investigatory process, to build strong cases that can be successfully prosecute.
• As part of their focused deterrence strategies, agencies should form close partnerships with federal officials on prosecuting high-risk gun offenders in federal court.
• Agencies should create and support victim and witness protection programs to guard against intimidation and to support cooperation with investigators and prosecutors.
3. What every gun owner must do: Secure guns in the home, and remove guns from homes where they pose an extreme risk.
• Enact and enforce laws (such as Child Access Protection statutes) that mandate the safe storage of firearms in homes and vehicles. These laws should be supported by public education campaigns that explain how to safely secure firearms, as well as prosecution of violator.
• Enact and utilize Extreme-Risk Protection Order laws that allow family members or friends to petition the courts to order the temporary removal of firearms from individuals who may be at risk of harming themselves or others. Police Executive Research Form.
• Enact and enforce laws that provide for the immediate surrender of firearms upon conviction of domestic violence offenses or other disqualifying events under federal law. Agencies should create and train specialized units to enforce protection orders and remove firearms from these offender.
• Develop and use lethality assessments tools for officers responding to the scene of a domestic violence incident to help determine if the victim is at an increased risk of being killed in a subsequent incident. Such tools can complement problem-oriented policing strategies aimed at curbing domestic violence.
4. Implement evidence-based policing strategies to target the small number of offenders who are responsible for most gun violence.
• Law enforcement agencies should vigorously investigate non-fatal shootings and gun possession cases, as a strategy for preventing future shootings and homicides.
• Agencies should implement evidence-based enforcement and prevention strategies that include: Focused deterrent, hot spot policies, directed patrol, problem-oriented policing
• Predictive Policing Models can help agencies more effectively deploy resources to support these initiative.
•Efforts to build community trust and engagement can help ensure that community members will tell police what they know about gun violence offenders.
5. Ballistics technology is extremely powerful. We need to fully utilize it. Connecting guns helps to solve crimes and prevent future offenses.
• Law enforcement agencies should collect ballistics evidence in all shootings, including random shootings and those in which no one is hit.
• Agencies should strive to develop the necessary resources or partnerships to run all ballistics evidence through NIBIN (National Integrated Ballistics Information Network) and aggressively pursue all investigative leads. The goal should be to submit casings and receive results from NIBIN within 48 hours.
• Agencies should test fire all guns they recover and trace all crime guns through the eTrace system.
• The ATF’s Crime Gun Intelligence Centers should be a priority for federal funding, and local agencies should take full advantage of this resource.
6. Reducing the carnage: Limit the availability of high-powered firearms.
• Limit the capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds. Police Executive Research Form.
• Ban the sale and importation of bump stocks.
• Ban the future sale and importation of military-style weapons that have no purpose except to kill large numbers of people as quickly as possible.
7. Stop guns from entering the black market.
• Law enforcement agencies should vigorously investigate and prosecute both individuals and gun dealers who engage in straw purchases and other illegal gun trafficking schemes.
• To guard against gun store burglaries and robberies, there should be strict physical security standards at federally licensed firearms dealers.
• Individuals should be required to report stolen or lost firearms. To support the reporting of stolen firearms, there should be public education campaigns to explain how to record identifying information about the firearm (e.g., serial number) and how to report it as stolen.
8. Connecting the dots: Assessing threats to intervene in mass shootings.
• Develop and use threat assessment protocols for individuals who come to the attention of law enforcement as potential mass attack offenders.
• To combat school shootings, school resource officers, teachers and other school personnel should be trained to look for tell-tale signs of crisis or violence, and protocols should be established for reporting and following up on those threats.
9. Verifying what works: Dramatically expand gun violence research.
• The federal government, through the CDC and other agencies, should support high quality research on evidence-based strategies for combating gun violence.
• Private foundations should continue to support gun violence research.
• Law enforcement agencies should work closely with the research community to engage in research projects that examine the effectiveness of their gun violence programs and strategies.
• Special attention should be given to researching the recommendations made in this report.
Did I miss the call for vigorous prosecution of criminals? Once again the government has come up with ideas to affect the common man, not necessarily criminals, and ensure that citizens are outgunned by the police/government.
In my opinion, Obama and his cohorts initiated a silent coup that would end in a loss of all personal freedoms. Look at Venezuela and ask, could this happen in the United States with a well armed citizenry?
The fact it has not been released should tell us something.
According to PERF’s website, general membership in the group is exclusive to “the executive head of a municipal, county or state-funded agency that provides general police services. The agency must have at least 100 full-time employees, or serve a population of 50,000 or more people.”
See my tag line
It seems that way to me too, but it’s probably just that, as a gun guy, the only cops I’m around are ‘gun guys’.
I only have one item on my list.
1. Never let the people who compiled this list ever be in charge of anybody or anything.
JoMa
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/us/sheriffs-refuse-to-enforce-laws-on-gun-control.html
https://www.rt.com/usa/sheriffs-refuse-enforce-gun-laws-329/
- Requiring background checks for all private sales and transfers.
No indication this would have stopped any of the mass shootings. The straw purchases in the Columbine shootings were already prohibited by law and did not stop the transfer.
- Safe storage laws make the weapons useless for self-defense.
- Red Flag orders would quickly be abused as the new "SWATing" technique.
- Magazine limits are unenforcible nonsense due to current widespread availability and the speed at which magazines can be changed.
Did I mention that the phrase "high-powered firearms" is completely misused? The assault weapons ban is completely bogus and not implementable.
- The "black market" meme is code for licensing of all guns.
To be effective EVERY police jurisdiction would have to refuse to enforce the anti-gun (anti-freedom) laws. A few sheriffs nationwide is a good thing, but you can’t count on it. I reiterate the police are NOT your friends.
While the recommendations will appear to the sheeple to be directed at “gun violence” they are all directed at one type of gun violence (mostly one-on-one acts) and not the type that gets the public so interested in “gun control” - “mass shootings”. And the “recommendations” have nothing to offer about identifying the mentally unbalanced possible mass shooter and keeping guns out of their hands. In almost every “mass shooting” case, none of the recommendations would have prevented them; their weapons were legally obtained and legal for them to obtain.
To hell with them; they're enemies of the Constitution.
"... against all enemies, foreign and domestic ..."
I think we all know that there isn't the slightest intent by anti-gunners to stop school shootings. The Schumers and Bloombergs of the world are not stupid nor are they "misguided." They are evil. They are well aware that their wish list of infringements won't have the slightest effect on real crime. of In fact they want more massacres so they can bath in the blood of innocents to push their real agenda - total citizen disarmament.
Once that's accomplished there will be no constraints on their power and they intend to wield it to control our every action. Hate speech - anything they don't want you to say. Transportation - public, stay home or pay a fortune in taxes for fuel. Housing - get rid of the suburbs and move everyone into apartments in the cities. We've all heard all of these proposed as serious initiatives by the left.
Most street cops do support the 2nd Amendment. It is the political, ego driven heads of agencies that put out crap like this, usually with some liberal consultant complicit.
The worst is always the head of a city or municipality. Those chiefs are appointed by the city council or city manager. They do not answer to the citizens, unlike Sheriffs. There time in office is tenuous, at best.
Where you have a liberal bastion, like Tucson AZ, you will have a liberal sheriff voted in.
“6. Reducing the carnage: Limit the availability of high-powered firearms.”
Like 375 HH magnum, 458 winchester etc? Surely you don’t mean varmint rounds like 223?
Yep!
What’s the status of the National “Red Flag” bill that has bipartisan sponsorship?
“The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a Washington-based think tank, “
Just one of a zillion beltway bandits that suck off the taxpayers’ teats. Utterly useless peckerheads with a fancy name.
Police chiefs are the sock puppets of their political masters. Always have been.
The one thing which will reduce homicides, is more incarceration of chronic criminals. Most homicides are done by people with prior criminal records.
We could do much more to reduce crime, by eliminating all welfare programs which provide incentives for women to have kids without responsible fathers.
Most gun violence is from a few select counties and cities. Fix them.
Recognize that civilian, CCW gun owners have lower rate of crime than the police. Process that.
Accept that an armed citizen can protect themselves, not wait 8-10 minutes for police to show up and monitor (being nice this morning).
The police need to be disarmed of all military weapons, equipment and tactics. The police should wear blue and only blue. The police should be addressed only as "Peace officer" and act accordingly. No knock warrants should be jail sentences for any judge that issues one. The police should be accountable for any and all abuse of power. Yes I think the citizens need to have their own list on how to make the police safer.
Which is part of the genius of the Bill of Rights. It's the nature of governments (and by that I mean the bureaucrats and politicians that make up government) to always want more. They are NEVER satisfied, and the NEVER get enough.
Look at Australia. The smug sanctimonious Australians proudly touted their helpless disarmed status. So now what does their government want? Get rid of cash transactions and criminally punish anyone who publically dissents. And that's just the beginning fools(and by fools I mean Australians and anyone who wants gun control here).
There are two types of people. Those who want to be left alone and leave others alone, and those who know what's best for everyone and want to inflict their lame ideas on everyone else. Guess which ones go into government.
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