Comments on: Police Reveal Weapons Inventory Irregularities

By: stfu

stfu — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:13:10 +0000

Wonder if the guy who resigned will be the one hired back…probably since he was a retired cop….

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:36:23 +0000

Wow, of all the comments, STFU has it correct. Thank you Guardian for keeping an eye out on Local Government!

By: stfu

stfu — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Doesn’t read like BPD came forward to me reads like they kept it mum til someone asked… not much in the way of transparency

By: Karen Ragland

Karen Ragland — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:14:03 +0000

Remeber that the sheriff is elected and the chief of police is appointed at the will of the Mayor and City Council. We get a chief of police only as good as the Mayor and City Councel want.

Sheriff candidates are local while chief of police candidates can come from anywhere and are not known to the community they are to serve.

EDITOR NOTE–We have both a good chief and a good sheriff. The chief has set up a professional standard of conduct and the incident has been under investigation well over three months. He admittedly didn’t choose to wash the department dirty laundry in public until prompted by the GUARDIAN. We are looking at a couple more incidents where he did the “legal” thing, but the public is not served by the “discreet actions” of the department. When we can legally offer up details, we will share them.

By: Bronco Fan 93

Bronco Fan 93 — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:21:47 +0000

So just to clarify for the misguided cop-haters that have posted…..you may want to actually read the story for a few facts before making your assumptions. First, it was a police supervisor who found and reported the problem. Second, the employee who was responsible for the destruction and records-keeping process and who resigned during the investigation was a part-time armorer (a civilian employee, not an officer). Therefore, your “cops don’t investigate cops”, “blue wall of silence”, and “more bad cops than good cops” comments are simply ridiculous. Had any of those things actually been true, do you think BPD would have ever gone public with the story in the first place? When clueless, you are much better off keeping your comments to yourself.

EDITOR NOTE– Boise PD didn’t go public until the GUARDIAN confronted them with allegations sent to us from a city employee. The armorer was a retired copper hired back as a civilian part timer. As for the blanket comments, we agree they are out of line and certainly not fair to the vast majority of coppers who are honest. We will put Rick in “time out” once again.

By: Ronin

Ronin — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:38:16 +0000

Rick I think actually it is referred to as the “Blue wall of silence” and no, they will never “squeal” on each other. The thought is that they have a badge, we don’t, it is an us vs. them sort of mentality. Unfortunately this is not only for the interactions of cop-citizen, but for gear, rights, tools, cars, guns and priority at certain venues which can range from the airport to the coffee shops. First come first serve, and those who serve go first.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:25:06 +0000

Nez

good for you… I think there’s more bad cops than good cops…

By: Sal Nez

Sal Nez — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:16:38 +0000

Good golly Rick, why u getin down on the cops. I’m sitin here at the library on the cumputr, am homeless, and I get treted ok by boise cops all the time. You all act like they are thugs, try talking to a few, they are nice guys when you are decent with them.
I have had my share of drunk run ins with them, and deserved jail each time I went.

By: Heather R.

Heather R. — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:47:31 +0000

Huh! Wonder if a person could scavenge any useable parts from these. No accusations, just wondering.

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:20:26 +0000

Paul: Why can’t people with conceal carry permits purchase guns that are declared surplus or obsolete?

I wondered the same thing. Then I read the article. If they are safe and legal, they ARE sold at auction.