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Nueces constable cleaning up evidence room mess; how many others are just as bad?

One consequence of 21st century constables taking on workaday law enforcement duties outside their traditional process-serving functions has been that these small, independent agencies with little accountability or oversight become responsible for managing complex processes for which they're not equipped, like the ins and outs of keeping their own evidence rooms.In Corpus Christi, when a constable elected in 2008 took over he found their evidence room a wreck, with drugs and guns that should have been disposed of (or in the case of some of the guns, returned to their rightful owners) a decade ago or more. Reports the Caller Times ("Precinct 5 constable cleaning evidence room," Jan. 28):A World War II Japanese bolt-action rifle has been sitting in the Nueces County Precinct 5 constable?s evidence room since at least the early 1990s...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 01, 2010 (boomark / email).