Posted on 07/29/2017 6:37:46 AM PDT by rellimpank
Cicero cop shooting tied to gun Chicago P.D. should have destroyed The Watchdogs 07/28/2017, 12:31pm
This is the .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, serial number J515268, that Cook County Judge William Stewart Boyd turned in to the Chicago Police Department to be destroyed. Instead, years later, it ended up at the scene of a police shooting in Cicero involving a cop with a troubled disciplinary record. | Court files Casey Toner | Better Government Association Sign-Up for our News & Politics Newsletter Sign-Up
Thirteen years ago, William Stewart Boyd, a Cook County judge, drove to a South Side church to turn in a handgun his late father had owned.
The Chicago Police Department was accepting guns as part of a buyback program meant to take weapons off the streets and help make the city safer.
Boyd, who hears domestic relations cases, brought them his father’s .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, serial number J515268. He remembers handing it to plainclothes officers who wore their badges and service weapons on their belts. Under the buyback program, they, in turn, gave him a prepaid Visa card. It was for less than $100.
The police recover thousands of guns every year, many of them through buyback programs like this, as well as by confiscating weapons seized during arrests — more than 5,000 guns so far this year alone.
The guns are supposed to be destroyed. But the gun Judge Boyd took in somehow wasn’t. Instead, it turned up eight years later next to the body of a young man who was shot to death by a Cicero police officer.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
But, but the media and also the Parties of Government were always were telling me to take a leap of faith with their gun (oops, citizen) control initiatives.
I fail to see why this is such a big deal, just ARREST and PROSECUTE every last person involved in the “Gun Buyback Program” 8 years ago for MURDER under the Felony Murder Rule, just like the Bikers in Waco...
Chicago never changes Capone smiles.
Hey, Cicero cops, keep better track of your throw down guns, and this wouldn’t happen.
Yep, it was the gun’s fault.
Chicago, corrupt cops, thow down guns. Yep nothing new here.
Kinda shows that once you buy it...
Your name is Always attached
To it.
One question not answered in the article is whether the gun had fingerprints on it.
If there are fingerprints on a throw down gun, it is typically only on the outside and may have been placed there after the shooting. Unless the cop was stupid, there would be no fingerprints on any of the ammo.
Yep. I hope we get some follow up on this.
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