Posted on 05/31/2016 12:28:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police say the FBI agent's 40 caliber Glock 27, identification badge and credentials were taken.
An FBI agent's gun and badge were stolen during a vehicle break-in at San Francisco's Alamo Square over the weekend, police said.
San Francisco police Officer Carlos Manfredi said the FBI agent reported his vehicle was broken into on Hayes and Pierce streets between 12:30 and 12:40 p.m. Sunday.
Manfredi said the FBI agent's .40 caliber Glock 27, identification badge and credentials were taken.
Police did not have any details about possible suspects, and no other information was immediately available.
Neighbors who live near the popular Painted Ladies know all too well that any car parked in the area is a target for thieves. "Ours was broken into so many times the man at the glass repair place starting giving me a discount," said resident Sue Valentine.
An NBC Bay Area investigation earlier this year revealed that more than 500 weapons have gone missing from local and state agencies since 2010, either stolen or misplaced.
That had other Alamo Square residents wondering why a federal agent would leave his gun and badge in his car in an area known for theft.
No one from the FBI was available Monday, so it is unknown whether the agent in question will face discipline for leaving his weapon in his car.
The theft follows a series of stolen guns that were used in homicides in the Bay Area.
In October, three homeless drifters stole a gun from a civilian's car in San Francisco and used it to kill a backpacker and a yoga instructor.
In July, a gun was stolen from the vehicle of a federal agent with the Bureau of Land Management and used to kill 32-year-old Kate Steinle.
So, you have to ask yourself, why aren’t these “agents” required to have a secure weapon container bolted to the floor of the trunk of their cars? I mean that’s what’s expected of citizens unless they want to have their lives ruined.
How do we know he didn’t just sell them? Or be black mailed by his SO for the w/e?
Watch for a rash of unlicensed pharmacists being raided by an undocumented narco squaddie.
The only constitutional amendment that we desperately need:
All laws shall apply equally to the government and their employees as they apply to citizens. Any exemption given to one shall apply to all.
Isn't the repercussions for having your weapon stolen, much worse than the cost of the weapon?
The agent lacks common sense. Fire the SOB.
H->! has already stolen whatever cred the FBI may have had. Who is writting up the popo report on that?
They all seem to get a pass these days.
It makes no sense to me, unless the agent was undercover and was afraid of being frisked.
Add all members of both Houses of Congress.
A few years ago I took a gun of a kid who was trying to sell it on the streets of NYC. We traced the gun back to the ATF. The kid stole the gun out of an agent’s car that was parked in his driveway in Arizona. The agent had left his full gun belt with the weapon in it right there on the passenger seat for the night. We asked the ATF if they wanted the gun back. Nope, they said, they had already given the agent another one. Then they hung up. Cannot make this up.
A federal agent loses his gun in San Francisco again.
Perhaps all the gay agents ask to transfer there, and get their cars cleaned out while they’re frequenting the bath houses.
A guess? Buggery.
Nice going Alonzo Mosley.
We’re the ruling class. We can do whatever the hell we want!
This is not supposed to happen. LE officers are supposed to have situational awareness. That includes awareness that automobile smash and grabs have been effectively decriminalized in San Francisco as of a year or so ago.
http://sfist.com/2015/07/27/spike_in_car_break-ins_has_many_bla.php
I wonder how many of these LEOs are female. Women tend not to want to carry heavy objects, either in their purses or elsewhere, even for short distances. The article refers to “him,” but how does the reporter know the gender? Do the official reports specify the gender of the victim?
Mark Douglas (FBI profiler/ author) talked about that. Basically what it boiled to him was: bathrooms. He didn’t like shoulder holsters in general, and belt holsters drop your gun on the floor when you drop your pants, and grabbing the gun before dropping your pants leaves you sitting on the pot in the mall with a gun which struck him as rather odd. So he’d lock his piece in the car, until his car got broken into, but a different area than where he kept his gun. So he got lucky on that front, and learned to cope with the gun in the can.
Funny thing, I cannot for the life of me remember it happening during the tenure of J. Edgar Hoover. I think such
careless and sloppy behavior back then would have been so intolerable and unacceptable, it was grounds for termination and simply never happened.
But then Hoover was a bad guy. The media says so.
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