Up until recently, if public safety or public health professionals in Michigan needed access to accurate information about the number of firearm-related deaths, the most timely database that they would be able to access would come from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and the most recent data in that system is from 2024.
Now, the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention has launched a tool to fill that gap.
Jessica Roche, managing director of the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, explained that the new Michigan Firearm Injury Near Real-Time Data System, or Mi-FINDS, will allow local leaders to make data-informed decisions about where resources are going in their communities and neighborhoods…