Nearly two dozen weapons, including high-powered assault rifles, were stolen from a shooting range belonging to south suburban Harvey police, prompting a statewide alert this week.
At least 21 weapons, which included handguns, MP5 and AR-15 assault rifles, were reported stolen from a trailer on the semi-wooded property of the shooting range at 153rd Street and Campbell Avenue about 9 a.m. Monday, according to Harvey police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The guns were "stolen from a trailer on the semi-wooded property of the shooting range." By all means let's not blame the Harvey police department. Only the thieves are responsible, right?
I hope my sarcasm is transparent enough. I wonder if any of the individual-responsibility guys might consider the improper storage of the weapons on the part of the police as a contributing factor in the theft.
I spotted another interesting piece of information about this case on The Free Republic.
I'll bet when the Harvey Police investigators are done, they'll conclude that only the thieves are to blame. What do you think?Only hours after Cook County sheriff's officials agreed to join an investigation into the theft of nearly two dozen weapons belonging to south suburban Harvey police, they pulled out. The sheriff's department had joined on the sole condition that its investigation be independent of that of Harvey police, a sheriff's spokesman said, but Harvey officials weren't cooperating.
Sheriff Tom Dart has been critical of Harvey's internal operations and his department was part of a task force that raided Harvey's police station in January 2007, seizing evidence from unsolved crimes. Investigators from state police and the state's attorney's office subsequently filed murder and attempted murder charges using the seized evidence.
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