The Views of Police Officers Toward Gun Legislation and Public Health Policies Driven by Firearm Safety Concerns.

Gun violence is a principal cause of premature death in America. It has been suggested that solutions to gun violence may be found using a public health approach, which is broader than dealing with the problem via law enforcement alone. A component of a public health approach to gun violence is the implementation of policies or laws.

The impact of COVID-19 on the spatial distribution of shooting violence in Buffalo, NY.

Objectives: This paper examines the extent to which hotspots of shooting violence changed following the emergence of COVID-19.

Methods: This analysis uses Andresen's Spatial Point Pattern test on 1500 by 1500 foot grid cells, correcting for multiple comparisons, on a 10-year sample of geocoded shooting data from Buffalo New York.

Results: This work finds zero micro-grid cells are not statistically different from pre to post COVID stay at home orders and instead that the observed rise in shootings in the sample appears to be a consistent proportional increase across the city.

When COVID-19 and guns meet: A rise in shootings.

Objective: The present study examines the impact of the COVID-19 stay-at-home order on gun violence in Buffalo, New York: fatal shootings, all non-fatal shootings, non-fatal shootings with injury, and non-fatal shootings without injury. It also estimated its impact on gang and non-gang related shootings.

Methods: Weekly crime data are analyzed at the city level using ARIMA and poisson models.