Gun Violence Researchers Race to Protect Data From Trump
Wintemute, epidemiologist and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program, was prepared. After seeing that climate scientists were systematically downloading crucial information from federal databases, he had drawn up a spreadsheet of the gun-related datasets he uses every day: lists of gun licensees, retailers, and manufacturers; gun tracing data; firearm-related death and injury numbers sorted by categories like race, location, or age. “I basically walked around the building saying, ‘Get it done now,’” Wintemute says. So on inauguration day, as Cerdá says, the #Violence_Prevention_Research_Program was less of a lab and more of a “little downloading bootcamp.”
▻https://www.wired.com/2017/02/gun-violence-researchers-race-protect-data-trump
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