“Everybody knows that the work they’re doing is vital in completing the firearm trace, and that might be the one piece of information that solves the violent firearm crime.” [Watch]
All that money they’re spending, I’m wondering how many violent crimes have been solved where the credit can go to that “one piece of information”…
And in the spirit of the government’s “If you see something, say something” advice, all those boxes stacked in hallways makes me wonder if they pose a workplace safety hazard and if the Martinsburg Fire Marshal needs to do an inspection…
[Via Steve T]
My gut tells me it the “crimes solved using trace data” numbers were good, we’d hear quite a lot more about them and demands to mechanize any and all data needed to conduct same.
Instead we get the sound of crickets
Oh no, not crickets — we get pearl clutching and ethnic fire drills about “ghost guns” that are especially dangerous because they can’t be traced like ordinary guns… traced back to the dead end of the last legal owner they were stolen from, to precisely the same effect as not having been traceable at all.