#  Tracing Analytics Platform 

 



 ![Tracing Analytics](/sites/g/files/omnuum10826/files/datasmart/files/tracing_analytics_platform_0_feature.png)

 

The NYAG created the first-of-its-kind project, Target on Trafficking: New York Crime Gun Analysis, and an accompanying online interactive Tracing Analytics Platform to better understand gun trafficking patterns and to assess the efficacy of laws combating illegal guns in New York State. The NYAG report, informed by an analysis of gun trace data, highlights how guns flow into New York from states with weaker gun laws. The platform not only provides data to inform local law enforcement about gun crimes in their own areas, but also carries substantial implications for the future of state and federal gun laws. The data-driven confirmation of the Iron Pipeline's existence and impact can be used to encourage policy decisions concerning future gun laws in New York and other states, and it showcases the power of data to analyze complex problems.



 

##  Stats 

Dataset(s): Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Visualization: Dashboard

Jurisdiction: New York State

Developed by: Office of New York State Attorney General (Eric T. Schneiderman)



 

 



 [ Project link arrow\_circle\_right ](https://targettrafficking.ag.ny.gov/tool/) 

 

 

 

 

  [### Tracing Data to Reduce Gun Trafficking

 ](/news/article/tracing-data-to-reduce-gun-trafficking-1087) August 02, 2017 

 August 2, 2017 Public Safety A recent gun trafficking bust in New York State confiscated over 200 guns from Virginia. The guns were brought into New York through what’s known to law enforcement as the Iron Pipeline, a route on Interstate 95 through which... 

 

 

   ![Homescreen of the gun trafficking portal with maps and statistics ](/sites/g/files/omnuum10826/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/datasmart/files/gun-trafficking-portalsmall.png?itok=x5I3HDux)