Lucy!

You got some 'splainin' to do!!!

• Thirteen years ago, William Stewart Boyd, a Cook County judge, drove to a South Side church to turn in a handgun his late father had owned.
  
  The Chicago Police Department was accepting guns as part of a buyback program meant to take weapons off the streets and help make the city safer.
  
  Boyd, who hears domestic relations cases, brought them his father’s .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver, serial number J515268. He remembers handing it to plainclothes officers who wore their badges and service weapons on their belts. Under the buyback program, they, in turn, gave him a prepaid Visa card. It was for less than $100.
  
  The police recover thousands of guns every year, many of them through buyback programs like this, as well as by confiscating weapons seized during arrests — more than 5,000 guns so far this year alone.
  
  The guns are supposed to be destroyed. But the gun Judge Boyd took in somehow wasn’t. Instead, it turned up eight years later next to the body of a young man who was shot to death by a Cicero police officer.

We remember when over a hundred VCR's went missing from ERPS, long before this blog even existed. The Department shelled out thousands of dollars to the owner of an appliance store who had gone to claim his property after a burglary trial and was amazed the Department couldn't account for the equipment. It was about that time that every Watch Commander's office in the city suddenly had a new VCR and every Roll Call room had another one for "training tapes."

But guns disappearing and reappearing on the street? The article says over 130 guns couldn't be accounted for and 4 other guns appeared at other crime scenes, hinting at a bigger problem. But if you keep putting "merit" hacks and bad political actors in positions where trust can be abused and rules aren't even suggestions to the morally bankrupt, well...you see what happens.

Don't expect IAD to do a legit investigation - they're too busy covering up for crooked test takers.