Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Top ATF officials said they did nothing wrong by using people with mental disabilities in storefront stings nationwide, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The comments came during a meeting with The Arc, a disability rights group, that was outraged by the discovery that ATF agents used rogue tactics to conduct storefront stings.
The people with disabilities were often used to promote the operations and then arrested, the Journal Sentinel found last week.
ATF officials said they used “common sense” and acknowledged it was difficult determine who has mental disabilities.
“When we pointed out that perhaps everybody would be in a better position if they had training to recognize the characteristics or red flags that they are dealing with someone with a diminished capacity, they simply agreed that it would be worthwhile and appropriate, that ‘common sense’ could be more well-informed,” Peter Berns, head of The Arc, told the Journal Sentinel.
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“ATF officials said they use ‘common sense’ and acknowledged it was difficult determine (sic) who had mental disabilities.”
Let it be noted that this is especially true amongst its own management ranks.