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Police in San Francisco are hunting for an officer’s gun after the bungling cop lost it by leaving it on top of his car before driving off.
At 9:27 a.m. a San Francisco police officer at the Ingleside District Station took a call from the agent who said he lost his pistol at 6 a.m.
In the past year, other law enforcement officers have lost their weapons.
The gun that killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco in July 2015 was stolen from a vehicle of a U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger.
The University of California at Berkeley police chief had her gun, badge and official laptop stolen from her car on Aug. 21 at Point Isabel in
Richmond.
A bill introduced in the state Senate last month would require everyone, including law enforcement officers, to store any handgun left in a vehicle in a locked trunk or a locked container out of sight.
Agencies/Canadajournal
