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Article: Police: Ballistics ID system flawed
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2005
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BALTIMORE - A law requiring state police to collect ballistics
information from each handgun sold in the state should be repealed
because the expensive system is flawed and has not helped a criminal
investigation since it was adopted in 2000, a state police report has
concluded.
The report recommends transferring laboratory technicians who work
on the Integrated Ballistics Identification System to the state
police DNA Database Unit.
"The program simply has not met expectations and does not aid in
the mission statement of the Department of State Police," according
to the report.
Col. Thomas E. Hutchins, the state police superintendent, said he
would like to spend the money instead on proven ...