Tucson’s Data-Driven Gun Violence Reduction Program

The applicant, the Tucson Police Department (TPD), is requesting funding to implement a series of targeted strategies, including the development of the Real Time Crime Center, the Community Safety Awareness and Response Center, TPD's Crime Gun Intelligence Center, and a comprehensive data management framework. The funding would support the Community Safety Awareness and Response Center effort to integrate police, fire, and emergency response services, providing real-time crime monitoring and intelligence support. This center would enhance TPD's ability to respond to incidents swiftly and efficiently and enhance TPD's Crime Gun Intelligence Center efforts to focus on the timely collection, automation, and analysis of crime gun evidence to identify shooters and disrupt criminal activity. Finally, through expanding TPD's data management footprint, TPD will be able to develop a robust data governance framework, ensuring efficient data integration and analysis. The funding requested would allow Tucson to hire a data analyst and data engineer to support these efforts, as well as the purchase and installation of high-resolution cameras in strategic locations.