Excaliber wrote:...
On another note, it's a bit hard to swallow that the chief didn't notice the gun he (should) carry every day was missing for four days.
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One possibility is that after the town meeting he changed from his uniform to civvies and he doesn't usually carry off-duty, so he didn't notice the gun (and his entire batman belt?) was gone until he went to put his uniform back on. The town meeting was in the evening on 9 Nov, a holiday weekend, and the PD issued a bulletin about the gun on Monday. So I'm guessing he took Friday off, had a long weekend, then when he went to put his uniform back on Monday morning, he went, "Now where's that heavy thing that hangs off the right side...lessee, when's last time I saw it...OH

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