Posted on 08/31/2014 10:58:39 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Images showing high-powered military rifles in the hands of law enforcement in Ferguson, Mo., after the police shooting of an unarmed black man focused attention on a controversial Pentagon program that supplies that kind of weaponry to local police departments. Now reports reveal how some of those guns have been lost by law enforcement officials who received the weapons.
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Active Duty ping.
At least we are not at fault this time.
easy start.
start searching every cops house the same way they search everyone elses’ houses. they’re left to deal with the broken doors and broken/ripped furniture and damaged everything else.
i suspect they’d get a significant portion back before cops’ homes were torn apart.
We will get them from somewhere else.
“James Ray, who oversees the 1033 program in Arkansas, told the station officials are worried the missing weapons could end up in the wrong hands”
It appears they ended up in the wrong hands to begin with
POLICE losing weapons.. just disappearing.. vanished!!!!!..
I DON’T THINK SOOOO!....... The game is on!...
“Captain Obviously here: they were confiscated by ISIS or ISIL a OShits’Obama refers them as”
I’ll take obamas word on that, they are his people after all
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Weapons vanishing?
Ask the ATF, Holder, and mexico!
Unfortunate boating accidents?
The weapons are being sent to the IRS, Social Security Admin, EPA...
Much of it can probably be attributed to “shrinkage” e.g. shoplifting. The large number of clerical people involved in law enforcement makes it vulnerable to those who would exploit their job responsibilities for material gain. One bad apple in the evidence room can ruin your whole day.
Tragic boating accidents, all of ‘em.
To illustrate this...I’ll point out a story from the 2010 period that came out of the northeast. A small city administrator one day came upon the back of the police department building where a couple of old CPUs and monitors were placed for trash pick-up.
They walked in and found at least a dozen new computers/monitors. This isn’t a big town....their budget isn’t the type that you’d get lost on. So, they asked questions because no allotment for new computers for the police department had been allocated for this financial year.
The front desk person for the cop station responded....they applied (without mayor or council notice) for a Homeland Security grant for new computers, and got the check. They then cashed the check without the city budget office knowing about it, and bought the hardware without the permission of the city council.
Needless to say....this became a topic which the police chief was asked to come and explain at the town council meeting. What the council hinted (don’t know if they followed through on this)....was that they’d make up a rule that any and all applications for any grants...had to have city council participation.
What the council didn’t ask....what else did the cops apply for in terms of grants. I noticed this question was left out and I suspect that if they applied for one grant that easily....they probably put in five or six grants.
I’d take a humble guess that a thousand police departments throughout the US....have acquired grant money and never told their mayor or city council about the funding acquired.
There was a recent incident in New Mexico involving a law enforcement official (cop) stealing boxes of rifle rounds. Small potatoes nationally but made the local news. And it goes on all over the country.
Hopefully it’s just cops taking weapons home to fight on our side to protect their families along with the rest of us from jack boted thugs.
I have owned firearms all my life, I’ve never “lost” one.
Wow, what an unfortunate name to have when dealing with weapons... The lords of irony must giggle over that one.
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