Editor, Please relay to Joe Latta our thanks for being with us at the Property and Evidence Association of Florida (P.E.A.F.) conference. I'm glad that we were able to partner with IAPE on this and hope we can do so again next year in Ft. Lauderdale. We had good reviews of the conference and some good suggestions for the next one. Our website is listed below for you to post with a link on the IAPE site. Thanks again to Joe for his personal support and to IAPE. Joel Mathews HCSO, Tampa, FL
To the Editor: In response to the editorial article "Are We Learning" in The Evidence Log, Volume 2003, Number 3, Carl Crisp of the La Porte (TX) Police Department wrote: While none of us in our profession, from rookie officer to Executive Staff, can deny the existence of political reality, we should not foster unrealistic fear. The fact that a person bent on breaking the law uses a weapon previously owned by a police agency should IN FACT cast no shadow of complicity on that agency. Any reasonably intelligent person can see that a weapon that was legally sold or legally traded and then legally reso I d to someone who THEN becomes a criminal by using it illegally places no blame on the originally seller (i.e.: police agency.) Unfortunately in our society, intelligent reasoning and political reality rarely, if ever, go hand in hand. Does anyone really believe that a person who is going to commit robbery or murder will stop just because they can't BUY a used police weapon? Aw, c'mon now? Don't think your editorial wasn't informative ... it was. But it seemed to have a definitive liberal slant from this reader's perspective. Thanks, Carl Crisp Response: Carl, That may be the first time in 35 years of law enforcement I've ever been accused of having a liberal slant, but I guess if you thought it was informative at the same time then I should call it a draw. Perhaps it was just my managerial paranoia showing through! Thanks very much for writing, Gordon A. Bowers
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