The aurora police department will produce timely, precise, and objective crime gun intelligence data to identify, focus, and coordinate their efforts and those of bordering agencies, and federal law…

The City of Aurora Police Department was awarded a $699,959 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (CFDA 16.738). The grant will support the development of a Crime Gun Intelligence program to generate timely and comprehensive National Integrated Ballistic Information Network and crime gun tracing data for use as proactive investigative tools. This intelligence will provide investigators and prosecutors with fast, accurate, and relevant information to identify violent armed offenders for priority investigation and prosecution. Specifically, the program aims to develop actionable leads through analysis of ballistic evidence and tracing of crime guns to link otherwise unrelated shooting incidents and determine illicit firearms sources. The project seeks to meaningfully collaborate with law enforcement and criminal justice partners to reduce homicides and non-fatal shootings in Aurora, Colorado by the September 2025 completion date.

The aurora police department will produce timely, precise, and objective crime gun intelligence data to identify, focus, and coordinate their efforts and those of bordering agencies, and federal law enforcement, forensic, and prosecutorial resources on the most violent armed offenders in aurora. The proposed model will be built upon the best practices set forth by the national crime gun intelligence governing board, bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms & explosives, and bureau of justice assistance. Aurora will generate timely and comprehensive nibin and crime gun tracing data to be used as proactive, objective investigative tools to provide fast, accurate, and relevant information to both investigators and prosecutors. Investigators can quickly follow-up on nibin leads to investigate recent shootings, determine the sources of crime guns, link otherwise unrelated shooting crimes, and identify violent suspects for priority proactive investigations. Prosecutors can use crime gun intelligence as compelling, scientific proof in the courtroom to link firearm evidence to additional violent crimes, thus enhancing bonds and sentences. The crime gun intelligence concept is based on the premise that evidence, casings recovered from the scenes of all shooting crimes, and every qualifying pistol and rifle taken into police custody will be test fired and entered into the nbin database. In addition, crime gun intelligences overlays crime gun tracing with nibin leads to identify the first retail purchasers of firearms that have actually been used to commit shooting crimes. The project's main goal and impactful expected outcomes are: the primary goal of crime gun intelligence is to develop timely actionable leads that will identify armed violent offenders for investigation and prosecution. Meaningful, timely, and ongoing collaboration with ATF, bordering police agencies, local crime laboratories, probation and parole, prosecuting attorneys, U.S. Attorneys' office (USAO), crime analysts, community groups, and academic organizations. Reduce the rate of homicides and non-fatal shootings.