Baltimore City will launch a new tool to track the source of illegally purchased guns and identify connections between cases, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Wednesday.
The Baltimore Police Department worked with Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Everytown for Gun Safety to develop the Gun Trafficking Intelligence Platform, a data portal that Scott said is the “first of its kind.”
The tool will integrate the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm’s (ATF) e-Trace system with ballistic evidence and the city’s ShotSpotter gunshot detection system.
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