MediaNews Group)ĭelaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said NIBIN will help investigators “follow the path of those crime guns from one crime to another and to be able to stop the next crime from even happening.” Jack Stollsteimer speaks at news conference. “We now have the ability to aid us in our investigations in this crisis.” Delaware County D.A. Too many innocent lives have been taken and too many families are dealing with unimaginable grief and trauma as a result,” Ryan said. “We know that we have to do everything in our power to end gun violence. “That’s game-changing but it’s also life-changing, because this is an opportunity to save lives.”Ĭhester County District Attorney Deborah Ryan said the technology will assist law enforcement in solving crimes such as homicides and shootings. “Getting a crime scene FCC into the NIBIN system within a short period of time, within 48 hours or less, not only betters our chance of solving the crime at hand but it also enables us to interrupt the shooting cycle, stopping a shooter from doing it again, and therefore reducing overall gun violence,” Steele said. Officials said the quicker the results are obtained, the more useful they will be to investigators in developing leads to solve crimes. The comparison results will then be returned to the originating county for review by detectives. With the NIBIN portal, the four counties are now positioned to be able to quickly respond to gun crimes that are linked together in a timely manner and to “disrupt the shooting cycle by these trigger pullers,” Steele said. Bullet Comparison (Photo courtesy Montgomery County District Attorney) Steele explained during a news conference on Wednesday at the Montgomery County Public Safety Training Campus in Plymouth Township. Since each firearm leaves its own signature on these bullet casings, when a bullet is fired through a unique set of scratches, grooves and dents in the chamber, that makes it traceable,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Just like matching a fingerprint unique to an individual (fired cartridge casing) is like a fingerprint of a gun. “This is a game-changer in combatting gun crimes and gun violence. Those so-called “hits” can then be confirmed by a firearms examiner and become investigative leads for detectives to use to identify suspects. The technology provides a database of fired cartridge casings collected from gun crimes across the U.S., which will help detectives develop leads and determine connections to potential suspects.Įssentially, because each firearm has a unique set of grooves and scratches, the NIBIN system can quickly compare a bullet casing “fingerprint” to its database of 6 million fired cartridge casings and create a list of potential matches. The technology, known as the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, or NIBIN, will allow detectives to connect and trace gun crimes through fired cartridge casings. PLYMOUTH - District attorneys from Montgomery, Chester, Delaware and Bucks counties announced the acquisition of technology they maintain will be a “game-changer” in solving gun crimes.
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