An anonymous complaint led the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to investigate the management and supervision of the U.S. Park Police (USPP) firearms program. Simultaneous, unannounced inspections of unassigned weapons at USPP facilities revealed that USPP could not account for Government-issued military-style rifles. It also showed that its weapons inventory was incomplete. Incomplete weapons inventories undermine USPP accountability for all of its weapons, and allow for the possibility that weapons that cannot be located and may not be in safe keeping.
During our site visits and subsequent interviews with key USPP firearms program personnel, OIG identified systemic internal control weaknesses. Our review revealed that USPP had no proper accounting for hundreds of weapons. We discovered hundreds of handguns, rifles, and shotguns not accounted for on the official USPP inventory. As recently as April 2013, two automatic rifles were discovered during a firearms search for which USPP had no prior knowledge.
We also found that individuals appointed to oversee the program, including senior command officers, gave only minimal supervision to officers and other program staff who had access to unassigned weapons. This report, following our earlier reviews in 2008 and 2009, underscores a theme of inaction and indifference by USPP leadership and a lackadaisical attitude toward firearms management. We provided 10 recommendations to improve firearms management and accountability throughout USPP.
This report further underscores the decade-long theme of inaction and indifference of USPP leadership and management at all levels. Basic tenets of property management and supervisory oversight are missing in their simplest forms. Commanders, up to and including the Chief of Police, have a lackadaisical attitude toward firearms management. Historical evidence indicates that this indifference is a product of years of inattention to administrative detail and management principles.
Not single fucking lazy ass Fedral worker will spend time in jail or lose even a penny in pay over this display of gross incompitace and negligence.
However, tax paying Senior BatBoy (a C&R Federal Firearms Licence holder) would be facing serious fines (and possibly jail time) if his C&R inventory ledger and actual C&R inventory didn't add up or if he was keeping shoddy records.
Same goes for the numerous instances of LEO negligent use of a firearm. Normal citizens would go to jail. Cops? at worst get a free paid vacation, via administrative leave.
Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of the free man from the slave.
I hope that whoever got their guns didn't also get one of the Park Police Segways. A crew that got its hands on a Segway would be unstoppable.
"The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all."
Ride'n down da road, shooting niggaz dat Iz see from my Segway that I stowl, MUTHAFHUKKAH!
I took it when bought some gunz from my cuzz, who be work'n fo da Man, MUTHAFUKKAH!
Dont be Judge'n me, when Iz use ma EBT, I need ta save my cash for sum rimz dat give me class for my Segway!
Ya'll niggaz know what I be talk'n bout, MUTHAFHUKKAZ!
"God forbid we tell the savages to go fuck themselves." Batboy
A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.
The ATF declined to discuss the matter; officials said they are still compiling an inventory of all the lost firearms for a complete account of the Fast and Furious operation.
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