Allegheny County(PA SWAT) cop accused of stealing ammunition

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040608copp4.asp

An Allegheny County police officer is in jail today awaiting a hearing on charges that he stole thousands of dollars worth of ammunition and traded it for weapons at a Beaver County gun shop.

Mark Martin Short, a 13-year county police veteran, is charged with theft. But, said District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. at a press conference today, more charges and other arrests are likely.

Short, 52, was arrested at his home in Moon. County police and agents from the District Attorney’s office raided the residence and seized an undisclosed amount of weapons, ammunition and explosives, mostly stored in Short’s basement.

Zappala said Short’s statement to police implicates other possible defendants. Details of what was contained in the cache were not revealed by Zappala, his chief investigator Terry O’Leary or county police Superintendent Charles Moffatt.

[PopeyeII]

1. The world will be safer when only the cops have the guns and ammo.

Fear the government that fears your guns.

[MrBenchley]

2. Jinkies!

How horrible then, that he was handing out that ammo to other police departments--oh, that's right....

"Moffatt said that he received an anonymous letter indicating that Short had been stealing munitions, and he notified the district attorney’s office. Short’s duties included loading ammunition onto the truck, Zappala said today.
The letter writer indicated that he was a customer at The Shooter’s Place, a gun shop in New Brighton. The owners, Robert and Marita Bernhardy, told police that Short frequently visited their shop to trade ammunition for weapons.
He had made such trades for about three years, the owners told police. In a recent transaction, Short traded about 10,000 rounds of ammunition for 12 weapons, according to an affidavit that supports his arrest."

"Fear the government that fears your guns."
I'm a lot more worried about the corrupt appointistration that uses this bogus "gun rights" bullshit to reach out to the scum of the earth...

[Hrumph]

3. This CAN'T be true.

We can trust only the military and police with guns because they are the only ones with the requisite years of training and psychological fitness to use them correctly.

Right?

[MrBenchley]

4. Jeepers, hrumph

In that case, we definitely ought not to let just any humhole with the price of a gun have them, eh?

[Township75]

5. Bench, why won't you think of the children?

?

[MrBenchley]

6. Tell it to Ted Nugent, town...

[iverglas]

7. quis custodiat custodes?

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1086127811168

Although disgraced, discredited, and dismissed for the rest of his term, former Toronto police board chair Norm Gardner <civilian political appointee> remains a burden on this city by refusing to resign.

Mayor David Miller has publicly urged him to step aside so that Gardner's empty seat on the police board can be filled by someone who can actually do the job.

Gardner should have quit months ago when a tribunal found him guilty of conduct that "discredited and compromised the integrity of the board." As chair of the police board, Gardner accepted thousands of rounds of police ammunition for his personal use. <and a handgun from a firearms manufacturer> A panel of the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services quite properly described this as a "serious misconduct."

Suspended without pay for the rest of his term, which ends in December, Gardner is not allowed to take part in board business. But he clings on, hoping to reverse the tribunal's ruling in court and refusing to give up the seat he is forbidden to occupy.

(The whole thing gets even messier: http://www.tpac.ca/issues/bulletin7.htm)

Oddly enough, both the police and their overseers are human. And some of them aren't nice.

There are some not nice physicians, too. I just don't notice many people calling, based on that fact, for members of the general public to be permitted to hang out their shingles and perform appendectomies. Appendectomies save lives, you know.