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NYPD Lacks Gun Control, Audit Finds

Posted: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Updated: July 2nd, 2008 12:46 PM PDT

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BY DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN. Special to Newsday
Newsday (New York)

The New York City Police Department can't keep track of the guns it seizes, according to a report issued yesterday.

New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. referred to the NYPD's current system of holding surrendered and confiscated firearms as unacceptable and demanded immediate improvements after announcing yesterday the results of his audit in lower Manhattan.

In June of last year, Thompson's audit gauged whether the NYPD's Manhattan Property Clerk Division - which receives, catalogs and protects weapons brought into custody - was adequately doing its job. The audit said Manhattan officials failed to account for or find 94 of the 324 firearms specified, adding that other boroughs' property divisions were found in a "similar state of disarray."

Assistant Chief Michael Collins, an NYPD spokesman, said in a statement that "[e]very firearm involved in the comptroller's audit was accounted for, although some could not be immediately produced because they were removed from their original storage positions for court appearances, or destruction."

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[jrfoxx]

failed to account for or find 94 of the 324 firearms specified

Yikes! thats a pretty big percentage, and a lot of guns, when you factor in that thats just one borrough,and the comptoller states that the others are roughly the same.

Sounds like Bloomberg should worry more about his own cops losing guns, which can end up on the street with criminals a lot faster, and not focus on the supposed "flow" of "crime guns" from licensed dealers in the south. Too bad he won't, and this will get ignored. Heck, he may even do a few more out of state stings to try and gloss this little fact over.

 

[Samuel Adams]

Did anyone check Bloomie's personal arsenal?

 

[burningsquirrels]

almost 1/3rd unaccounted for? imagine if this was nyc police money. tlak about an impending raucous!

 

[dogmush]

although some could not be immediately produced because they were removed from their original storage positions for court appearances, or destruction

Destroyed. Suuure, they were.

 

[Prof. A. Wickwire]

although some could not be immediately produced because they were removed from their original storage positions for court appearances, or destruction

So, a firearm has been removed from its original location for destruction. A few days later is is "returned" from destruction.

How does that work.

(Yes, I know the answer)

Sincerely,

Prof. A. Wickwire

 

[Aguila Blanca]

That's a 29 percent error rate.

Mayhap the BATFE should spend more time working with the NYPD property room, and less time checking to see if every box on a gun dealer's 4473s says "No" instead of "N"

 

[ProficientRifleman]

ProficientRifleman Said:

Insert standard sarcastic remarks here...

 

[ilbob]

what do you want to bet other valuable property is missing at similar rates.