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NYPD Lacks Gun Control, Audit Finds
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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IMO 94 firearms is a large number to be removed for active court appearances. And any that are scheduled for destruction, should be in a secure location that the Assistant Chief knows about and could have led the auditor to. This sounds like CYA to me.
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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IMO 94 firearms is a large number to be removed for active court appearances. And any that are scheduled for destruction, should be in a secure location that the Assistant Chief knows about and could have led the auditor to. This sounds like CYA to me.