B'KLYN DA HAS GUN COP IN HIS SIGHTS

The New York Post by LARRY CELONA and STEFANIE COHEN

May 6, 2008 -- A Brooklyn cop's "guesswork" in making gun busts could shoot down as many as 20 pending weapons cases, The Post has learned. Federal prosecutors recently dropped one gun case because of what a judge described as Officer Kaz Daughtry's flawed methodology, and now prosecutors from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office are reviewing 20 pending cases on which the cop was the arresting officer, law-enforcement sources said. Daughtry had busted Anthony McRae in Brownsville last September after he saw him adjusting something on his waistband.His search found McRae was carrying a loaded .45-caliber Ruger and heroin - but it was the only gun he came up with in a three-day sweep. Brooklyn federal Judge John Gleeson found Daughtry shouldn't have searched McRae because the convicted felon "did not move in a sufficiently suspicious manner."