South Bend Police Dept loaded handgun found in the middle of a busy street!

[churchmouse]

So it has been a month and now they are going to open a probe... this is why government sucks. If this happened at my company, I would call the person who could tell me who has the serial number on the gun assigned to them. Then I would have that employee appear in my office moments later and explain to me what happened. I don’t see much probing that needs to be done.

The objective here is to cover the A$$es that need to be covered in this.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

The objective here is to cover the A$$es that need to be covered in this.

Seems like there would only need to be one covered (the one belonging to the officer that "misplaced" his weapon). His ass must be YUUUUUGE!

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Riiiiiight! It takes 30 days to look at the serial umber and see it's assigned officer.

The Bend is a strange place to live. Entertaining at times, too.

 

[WebSnyper]

Riiiiiight! It takes 30 days to look at the serial umber and see it's assigned officer.

Yep, you think there would be some asset management behind that.

On another note, I wonder how that 30 days compares with the process to track down a weapon used in a crime (i.e. Contact manufacturer to get to the distributor to get to the store/FFL, and then get to at least the first buyer).

 

[WebSnyper]

So it has been a month and now they are going to open a probe... this is why government sucks. If this happened at my company, I would call the person who could tell me who has the serial number on the gun assigned to them. Then I would have that employee appear in my office moments later and explain to me what happened. I don’t see much probing that needs to be done.

Exactly, most companies would have asset management for such an item, especially given it comes from the OEM with a serial number. No need even for an asset tag, etc.
If they don't have a system like this, maybe we should push some of these politicians to do this before they try to force us to register ours

 

[EPeter213]

Riiiiiight! It takes 30 days to look at the serial umber and see it's assigned officer.

The Bend is a strange place to live. Entertaining at times, too.

It all depends on how senior the officer is!

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

Officer Maxey may have met his 5 year old match.

 

[JAL]

The objective here is to cover the A$$es that need to be covered in this.

John

 

[mlang2000]

Slap on the wrist...

Written warning for South Bend police officer who lost a gun

 

[Expat]

The FB comments on the SB news sites... people's hair is on fire.

 

[Sylvain]

Slap on the wrist...

Written warning for South Bend police officer who lost a gun

No mandatory pink lanyard?

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

The blacked out name on the letter looks too long for "Maxey", darn it.

 

[9mmfan]

I had the chance to talk to a member of South Bends Public Safety committee.

Apparently the officer had reported his missing handgun 6 minutes after it fell off his car. And he did every thing right after that. I guess that played a lot into their decision.
Now of course if it had happened to a civilian I believe we would end up in a heap of trouble.

 

[churchmouse]

I had the chance to talk to a member of South Bends Public Safety committee.

Apparently the officer had reported his missing handgun 6 minutes after it fell off his car. And he did every thing right after that. I guess that played a lot into their decision.
Now of course if it had happened to a civilian I believe we would end up in a heap of trouble.

You damned Skippy we would.

 

[Ark]

I had the chance to talk to a member of South Bends Public Safety committee.

Apparently the officer had reported his missing handgun 6 minutes after it fell off his car. And he did every thing right after that. I guess that played a lot into their decision.
Now of course if it had happened to a civilian I believe we would end up in a heap of trouble.

I vote we move to Judge Dredd rules on this subject. Failure to maintain possession of your weapon is an immediate disqualification from service.

 

[hpclayto]

I had the chance to talk to a member of South Bends Public Safety committee.

Apparently the officer had reported his missing handgun 6 minutes after it fell off his car. And he did every thing right after that. I guess that played a lot into their decision.
Now of course if it had happened to a civilian I believe we would end up in a heap of trouble.

There's a law against losing your handgun?

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I had the chance to talk to a member of South Bends Public Safety committee.

Apparently the officer had reported his missing handgun 6 minutes after it fell off his car. And he did every thing right after that. I guess that played a lot into their decision.
Now of course if it had happened to a civilian I believe we would end up in a heap of trouble.

What trouble would that be? How many people do you know that have been arrested for leaving a firearm unsecure in a vehicle and having it stolen?

 

[mlang2000]

Surely we're not so confused with what happened here as to equate having a firearm stolen from within your vehicle to the negligence of driving off with a firearm on your vehicle.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Surely we're not so confused with what happened here as to equate having a firearm stolen from within your vehicle to the negligence of driving off with a firearm on your vehicle.

It isn't negligent to leave a firearm unsecured in an unattended vehicle?

 

[9mmfan]

It isn't negligent to leave a firearm unsecured in an unattended vehicle?

It was not left in the car but on top of the car. Then officer drove away. I expect in South Bend they would have dug through every law in the book to charge a civilian. Not so in Mishawaka.