Stop Chasing Shooters: The Crime Gun Intelligence Architecture

Every year, shootings tear through jurisdictions across the country. Too many go unsolved, not because law enforcement lacks the technology to solve them, but because the technology, the people, and the process behind it were never built to work together in the first place. But solving the shooting that already happened is only half the mission. What matters just as much is stopping the next one. That is where most agencies fall short, treating each shooting as an isolated event to close out instead of a data point in a cycle of violence that will keep repeating until someone disrupts it.

Stop Chasing Shooters is not another book about gun violence statistics. It is a field guide for the detective supervisor handed a task force and a problem, the analyst staring at data nobody is using, and the chief who knows something is broken but cannot name what.

Written by Ray Guidetti, the retired New Jersey State Police Lieutenant Colonel who helped build out one of the nation's first statewide Crime Gun Intelligence programs from scratch, this book lays out the 13 essential elements every agency needs to move from reacting to shootings to disrupting the cycle before the next one happens. Drawing on real case studies, hard lessons from programs that failed, and Guidetti's own path from tactical operator to architect of a system now studied nationwide, Stop Chasing Shooters replaces guesswork with a blueprint.

This is not a policy paper, and it is not a pitch for any vendor or product. It is a practitioner's guide, written by someone who has stood in the room when the pressure was real and the stakes were higher than a budget line.

If you are ready to stop chasing shooters and start disrupting the cycle that produces the next one, this is where you start.