Durbin touts Chicago's new gun crime intelligence center

[SecularMotion]

In the wake of a wave of shootings and gun violence in Chicago, Sen. Dick Durbin on Friday toured a new federal Gun Crime Intelligence Center that opened here in June.

"You can't fight a war without intelligence, to know where the weapons are, where the shooters are and to stop it before it happens," Durbin said Friday at the Center's downtown offices.

The center, run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will serve as a clearinghouse of data on the more than 7,000 firearms used in crimes and recovered by Chicago police each year.

ATF agents, along with Chicago police detailed to the center, not only trace records and paperwork linked to recovered weapons, but look for patterns in where guns are used and where they come from.

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/durbin-touts-chicagos-new-gun-crime-intelligence-center/fri-07252014-556pm

[Eleanors38]

1. Glad they're getting around to it. nt