Milwaukee Police Officers Left Guns on Car Hood, Back of Toilet

By Jenn Jacques

Back in December, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn voiced what he thought was the root of his city’s violence: the State of Wisconsin’s concealed carry law.

“Since that law has passed, almost every single year, the number of crime guns seized by this department has gone up and the time-to-crime on our most frequently used weapons has decreased,” Flynn stated. “Now that’s correlation not causation, but it’s a pretty strong correlation.”

Perhaps he should stop worrying about us, the law-abiding citizens of Wisconsin, and focus on his own department.

Fox6 Milwaukee has obtained an open records report

An open records request submitted to the Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, and the Wisconsin State Patrol shows 27 weapons, including guns, tasers and pepper spray have been lost or are missing.

Police officers accidentally left their guns everywhere — from the hood of their car to the back of a toilet, according to the records.

One officer, while on a hunting trip, accidentally placed his gun on …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms