I dug through over 10,000 pages of internal police records to report this story over the last 2 years.

US police departments quietly sell untold numbers of their used guns. Thousands of those guns have turned up at crime scenes.



Some details🧵cbsnews.com/police-selling… Congress has gone to great lengths to keep this and other gun data out of public view.

Every year, more and more old police guns are showing up at crime scenes.

@reveal and @AlainStephens had to sue ATF to get even these basic totals.

Some details from my first investigation with @CBSNews:

Cops in the US only solve about HALF of murders in the US. It's the lowest rate ever recorded.

cbsnews.com/unsolved There's a huge gap between solve rates for white victims vs. Black victims, and it's getting worse