Specifications include, but are not limited to: Create a study that analyzes gang violence in the City of Buffalo. The BPD seeks a local (within 50 mile radius) academic provider or associated entity to study and examine gangs and produce a study that maps the relations between socio-temporal and geographical networks underpinning violence in identified targeted hotspot areas within the City. Help better understand the factors that drive gun violence, thus enabling law enforcement partners to implement effective data-driven strategies designed to address these conditions. This study will provide law enforcement agencies with information to help diminish the triggers of gang violence and enable the community and law enforcement to intervene before these triggers are pulled.
