Now that a 173-page study on Chattanooga gangs is available, the hope is that a committee of government and nonprofit agencies will move forward to create intervention teams to reach gang members.

Since the committee began meeting, there have been a total of 75 shootings resulting in injury or death in Chattanooga. The goal of the study is to decrease the number of shootings if more services can reach people who live in areas with high poverty and violence rates.

In the next three to six months, the committee will hold meetings to decide which organizations need to be included on gang intervention teams. They will also set three to five goals based on the data, which follows the comprehensive gang model manual from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the template for the local study.