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From The Seattle Times <\/a><\/p>\n

For nearly two decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was effectively barred from conducting research on gun violence, making nationwide data difficult to gather, and forcing local governments or smaller research organizations to pick up the slack.<\/p>\n

The result was significant gaps in data that could inform policymakers on how to effectively address gun violence.<\/p>\n

Now, Democratic state lawmakers are pushing to create an office on firearm-violence prevention in order to improve data sources, collection methods and sharing mechanisms statewide.\u00a0Senate Bill 6288<\/a>\u00a0would also\u00a0help fund local evidence-based violence-reduction initiatives. SB 6288 passed its committee vote in January, and is currently in the Senate Ways & Means Committee.<\/p>\n

King County is home to many of these initiatives,\u00a0which work with community partners to intervene in the lives of young people who may be headed toward violence or crime.<\/p>\n

Proponents of the bill say it would allow communities to decide how to best address their unique experience with gun violence. For example, some rural communities may face more gun-related suicides than interpersonal violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a way of getting ahead of gun violence in our state,\u201d prime sponsor Sen. Manka Dhingra, D-Redmond, said. Dhingra is a senior deputy prosecuting attorney in King County, and\u00a0hopes that improved data can help jurisdictions understand the root causes of gun violence in communities.<\/p>\n

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But some Republicans say the bill is simply another partisan push for gun control. Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley, argues that creating another state office is unnecessary, and is skeptical as to whether the proposed office would act as an advocacy group for gun restrictions. Senate Minority Leader Mark Schoesler said he doubts there will be any support among the Republican caucus.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Although emotional testimony regarding mass shootings and other forms of gun violence is being heard by state lawmakers, Sen. Jamie Pedersen, chair of the Committee on Law & Justice, said that legislation needs to be data-driven rather than \u201canecdote-driven or emotions-driven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, there is gun-violence research happening in the state, although there is no statewide infrastructure to merge data.<\/p>\n

Last year, Washington became the third state to fund firearms-related research, giving Harborview\u2019s Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program (FIPRP)\u00a0$1 million<\/a>\u00a0to study how firearm violence can be reduced. But Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, an epidemiologist who helps collect such data, says there are still significant gaps.<\/p>\n

The key to a deeper understanding of gun violence, Rowhani-Rahbar said, is merging data, which is difficult when some data doesn\u2019t exist, and others aren\u2019t reliable. For example, emergency rooms across the state have not been consistently collecting data on gun-related injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you link data from multiple different sectors, you learn something new that you didn\u2019t know before,\u201d Rowhani-Rahbar said. FIPRP has already researched connections between factors like beer taxation and firearm homicide, firearm access and suicide, and mental illness and risk of firearm-related injury.<\/p>\n

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One significant finding of Rowhani-Rahbar\u2019s research is that individuals who are hospitalized from firearm-related injuries are significantly more likely to be the victim of, or the perpetrator of, another firearm crime. The finding suggests that violence-reduction strategies should be hyper-focused on individuals.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The King County Prosecuting Attorney\u2019s Office has taken a similar approach, adopting a public health model and acknowledging that gun violence is concentrated within \u201csmall, identifiable social networks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dan Carew, who works with the office\u2019s Shots Fired data-collection program, said data is difficult to collect in King County, which has roughly 40 law enforcement agencies, each with their own data-collection methods. Carew also noted that while those agencies are required to report gun-related deaths, nonfatal injuries are often not documented.<\/p>\n

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In testifying for the bill, Carew discussed how the program uses data to pinpoint specific communities that are most likely to experience gun violence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Rowhani-Rahbar says FIPRP\u2019s research indicates that communities need to be involved in firearm-violence prevention, as different communities experience gun violence in their own ways.<\/p>\n

In addition to collecting data, SB 6288 would create a grant program to fund community-based intervention programs.<\/p>\n

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Leaders of the agency Choose 180, a youth diversion program in South Seattle, say they could benefit from the funding. Choose 180 intervenes in the lives of young people who have been charged with a crime, and offers them an alternative to the criminal justice system. According to Executive Director Sean Goode, 90% of 12- to 24-year-olds who participated in the program did not return to the criminal justice system in the year after their intervention.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Goode said the key to Choose 180\u2019s success\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>intervening early, and helping young people develop meaningful relationships within their own community that can address some root causes of their behavior. He also noted that additional funding, along with improved data, would benefit the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cViolence is a disease,\u201d Goode said. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re not tracking the spread of the disease, or the hot spots where people are most likely to be infected, then it doesn\u2019t reflect a strong intention to stop the spread of that disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Claudia Yaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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