Hundreds of police firearms stolen, lost in California
By Thomas Peele, Bay Area News Group
POSTED: 06/29/16, 7:08 PM PDT
UPDATED: 4 HRS AGO
... In all, since 2010, at least 944 guns have disappeared from police in the Bay Area and state and federal agents across California — an average of one almost every other day — and fewer than 20 percent have been recovered ...
Many departments have struggled to keep track of weapons. Oakland police, for example, lost track of 370 weapons since 2011, including 30 this year that later turned up. It’s unclear how many other guns could be missing from local departments that haven’t bothered to audit their inventory of weapons ...
Stolen police guns have ended up in the hands of members and associates of notorious gangs like the Bloods, The Aryan Brotherhood and Norteños. One fell into the hands of a Reno pimp after a prostitute took a Kensington police officer’s Glock pistol and badge from his hotel room when he fell asleep.
That gun was recovered when the pimp accidentally shot himself in the leg during a fight.
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