Posted on 08/29/2014 6:52:34 PM PDT by christx30
The Pentagon has banned 145 law enforcement agencies from receiving surplus military weapons and supplies, part of a program under scrutiny after police in combat gear responded to protests in Ferguson, MO.
In each case examined by the Cox Washington bureau, the departments were suspended after losing high-powered weapons.
The Daytona Beach Police Department was blacklisted after reporting a lost Colt M16 rifle in January.
"We still have not been able to find it," Daytona Beach Police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said.
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Lost in some LEO’s closet maybe.
Barney Fife lives!
In most states there is no registration so these end up being a pretty good untraceable deal for somebody.
They found it behind a toilet in the little NCO's room, where it had fallen out of a back pocket. We found it around 11pm.
But we weren't going home until someone coughed it up.
/johnny
When I was in the Marine Corps, losing a weapon was a guaranteed trip to Leavenworth.
Besides the loss of weapons, I hear of numerous accidental discharges by officers. Our local sheriff’s department has accidental discharges at the range and the paper reports the incident as no injuries. Not this time, perhaps. It is deplorable that alleged professionals have so many accidents. I never knew anyone in the Corps who had an accidental discharge that did not lose rank and serve brig time. I think the same should apply to law enforcement: accidents with weapons are NOT tolerated.
Police departments admit losing military weapons IN THEIR HOUSES....fixed it.
They mention a “Colt M16” but don’t identify which high powered weapons were lost.
Similar story. Our battalion just coming out of the field from a week long ARTEP- spent the rest of the afternoon/evening cleaning weapons/vehicles, etc.... One company came up short one bayonet during weapons count in their arms room.. The entire battalion area was turned upside down trying to locate it. No bayonet. The battalion commander rolled the entire battalion back to the training area in the dark and we spent the night looking for that bayonet- finally found it mid-day the next day. Losing a weapon or sensitive item in the military is a career ender for the leaders involved and harsh punishment for the soldier that signed for it.
One chief has plead ‘guilty’ of pawning weapons up to and including a machine gun. btw ... the town is so small the chief is the town only police officer.
When I was in the Marine Corps, losing a weapon was a guaranteed trip to Leavenworth.
This is why it pisses me off when too many here on FR try to equate the military and law enforcement.
/johnny
I’ve run a law enforcement agencies arsenal, and this is just ‘effing sad. In my agency a lost weapon would likely earn you a one way ticket to the unemployment line. It has happened at other divisions in my agency but not mine. the worst we have had is a few accidental discharges, which have landed the officers in question on “empty holster” assignments for a long time, followed by remedial training.
CC
I remember when an officer in a unit from Baumholder training at Graf lost his M9. They locked the unit down and kept them there for over a month looking for it. I do not know if they ever found it but I saw a report on AFN about bussing the families out them on weekends. I have been locked down numerous times until a set of missing NODS or weapon was found. I do not imagine that the police make any such effort to find the stuff their officers pilfer.
In my state (michigan) all police agency weapon serial #’s are recorded with the state police. failure to do so in a timely matter is a misdemeanor.
CC
Because someone should be made to crap the rifle with the right serial number.
Losing a weapon, or a wrench, shouldn't be taken lightly when taxpayer dollars fund it. Or it could wind up in a place to kill someone.
/johnny
Are you saying that LE shouldn't have to account for weapons the same as military?
I'm saying that they should. But, they don't.
And I'm pushing hard for that statewide and locally.
Doesn't make me a good guy with the local constabulary, but whattayagonnado?
/johnny
“Police in the beach city had received 60 M16 rifles and an armored personnel carrier in what Pentagon calls the 1033 program.”
Why would the Daytona PD need 60 M16’s?
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