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Author Topic: Hundreds of Police Issued Weapons Missing From Bay Area, CA Agencies  (Read 1526 times)

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Hundreds of Police Issued Weapons Missing From Bay Area, CA Agencies
http://extras.mercurynews.com/policeguns/

944 LOST GUNS
717 unaccounted for
192 stolen
35 misplaced


Disarmed and dangerous: Officers across the Bay Area and state are losing firearms at an astonishing rate — and the consequences can be deadly
By Thomas Peele
PUBLISHED JUNE 26, 2016

From Glocks, Sig Sauers and Remingtons to sniper and assault rifles, some equipped with grenade launchers.

They used to belong to law enforcement officers across California, but a new Bay Area News Group investigation found hundreds of police-issued weapons have been either stolen, lost or can’t be accounted for since 2010, often disappearing onto the streets without a trace.

A year after a bullet from a federal agent’s stolen gun killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier, this news organization surveyed more than 240 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and discovered an alarming disregard for the way many officers — from police chiefs to cadets to FBI agents — safeguard their weapons.

Their guns have been stolen from behind car seats and glove boxes, swiped from gym bags, dresser drawers and under beds. They have been left on tailgates, car roofs and even atop a toilet paper dispenser in a car dealership’s bathroom. One officer forgot a high-powered assault rifle in the trunk of a taxi.

In all, since 2010, at least 944 guns have disappeared from police in the Bay Area and state and federal agents across California — an average of one almost every other day — and fewer than 20 percent have been recovered...
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Re: Hundreds of Police Issued Weapons Missing From Bay Area, CA Agencies
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2016, 05:48:45 PM »
maybe it's Fast and Furious part II?