
By Chris Ison University of Minnesota
By G.W. Schulz Center for Investigative Reporting
Nearly $70,000 worth of surveillance gear left unused in its original packaging by a county north of San Francisco. A $2,300 plasma TV for university cops. More than $1.3 million spent without maintaining proper documentation to show where it went. Millions more in bomb-disposal robots and new communications systems bought from suppliers who weren’t forced to compete.
By Mike McGraw
The Kansas City Star
This is a "Collected Wisdom" centerpiece story from The IRE Journal, Fall 2009