I read with interest that Baltimore police passed up a saving of $500,000 because of moral issues and the political implications involved in selling department weapons back to the manufacturer ("Police weapon traced to killings," Dec. 18).
Your article quoted a former deputy police commissioner as saying that "if one of our guns is used in a crime — or to kill a child, as in this case — we don't want that on our conscience."
It is a shame that this concern for moral issues and political implications can't push Baltimore's judicial system to keep more repeat offenders, the "bad guys with guns," behind bars.
That is the real problem, and moral posturing while tax dollars are being wasted isn't going to solve it.
W.P. Lynch, Severn