Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: RE: Report of stolen horses recovered at Beltex and Dallas
Crown over last3 years
Hello
Mary,
I
have been trying to recover the information you requested as well as figures
for several other calls that came in desiring similar data.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to find many answers to your specific
questions. Here's what I have discovered:
1)
The DPS agency collects data statewide, from all other law enforcement
agencies, relative to items reported stolen....however horses are listed
as "livestock" and therefore can't be totaled individually.
2)
The # of horses reported stolen to TSCRA is not a figure I can get my hands on
easily. It is not a figure we use, so it is not an item totaled in
our database. It could be discovered but only by man hours reading
summary reports submitted by each one of our 31 officers.
3)
As I mentioned to you on the phone, we do know the # of horses recovered by
TSCRA law officers ...but not the location of their recovery. In the
last 10 years (1992-2002) we recovered 1,024 stolen horses. Since we
started inspecting horses at the two plants we have recovered 837.
However, we can't pull up how many of those were apprehended at the plants.
Again, that would take man hours to discover. It is simply not a number that
is totaled.
4)
Our inspectors at the two plants also stop BLM wild donkeys and burros
from being slaughtered. Although they might not be stolen they are not
permitted to be rendered for meat. This # is also not totaled
automatically in our database.
5)
Lastly, the total number of horses slaughtered in recent years at the
two plants is:
2000 35,630
2001 38,750
2002 40,336
Hopefully,
some of this information you can find useful.
Todd McCartney
Director, Producer Relations and Education
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assoc.
1301 W. Seventh Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76102
800-242-7820 ext.140
tmccartney@texascattleraisers.org