Crimes involving firearms cut a deadly path across Ohio’s largest cities. Ohio law allows gunslingers to churn through prison and back to the streets to do it again. And police are shifting their focus from collecting guns to removing the bad guys from the streets.

Series articles

• Sunday | Ohio cities overrun by guns
• Sunday | Reluctant witnesses give detectives fits
• Monday | Convicts freed quickly
• Tuesday | Going after gunslingers
• Tuesday | Offenders who turned peacekeepers calm streets