Posted on 08/06/2017 1:21:56 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Make all the “assumptions” you want. When you are careless enough to draw your gun when you shouldn’t bad things happen and not always to dogs. Just sayin.
Sure enough but the notion that cops are trigger happy is a totally false assumption. Most cops work entire careers without ever having to draw their weapon in the line of duty.
Orange County Sheriff’s Dept has gone to hell under the Democrats.
Just saying, in the overall scheme of things, most people DON’T know dogs “at all” and they DO mistake Catahoula (I recognized one at the dog bath I literally frequented and the owner herself told me how many assumed it was a pit type) and Labs and other types sometimes for PBT.
It’s not written in stone that people must know alot about dogs, either. Lord knows being in dog showing taught me alot about what dog is what.
As for LEOs shooting dogs, maybe it does happen too frequently, or at least they are too trigger-happy. I don’t really know, because there is no serious study on it.
I didn’t say all cops. But when it happens the results are deadly aren’t they. Ask the Australian woman in Minneapolis. Oh ya.....you can’t.
If you read the story, you would know the latter.
A few years ago when shooting dogs was all the rage and cops in many places took it upon themselves to shoot any dog they happened to see, we had two dog shootings in a month here. Our sheriff called a meeting with the local municipal chiefs in the county and explained to them that police officers are trained to deal with dogs and that there is no excuse for shooting dogs and if any more dogs got shot they had better test positive for rabies, because if they were not rabid, the officers doing the shooting would get whatever sanctions the sheriff could come up with and would have very bad evaluations and very bad recommendations for their next jobs. It has not happened since.
Perhaps they don’t require body cameras there?
There were 93 dogs shot in my city over a three year period, so your assumption is way off. As far as cops loving K9’s, a number of them have perished locked in hot cars, and no, the cop doesn’t face felony charges, like I would if I killed a police dog.
To a cop of a certain mentality “dogs” is synonymous with “pit bulls.” Back before the public outcry endangered some local politicians’ jobs, some departments and some police academies encouraged using dogs as practice. There is some indication that the the US DOJ encouraged that sort of thing and the observation was that police needed to get used to shooting people in case of some sort of right wing terrorist uprising and dogs made a good substitute.
“there is no excuse for shooting dogs”
Complete and utter nonsense.
There are INDEED times when dogs are out of control and need to be shot.
I don’t understand all the dog lovers (as opposed to respecters) who pretend everything is lollipops and flowers with all dogs. Dogs, not cats, i.e., do have histories of vicous attacks/maulings, after all.
There is bound to be a nasty dog to get in the way of a cop at an inconvenient time here and there.
The cop certainly did not think that but he surely did react to the opportunity as it presented itself.
It's not new. It was quite a fad a few years ago and FR would have one or two new ones daily. It was also a high point then for SWAT raids on apparently random citizens.
See #67
‘could’ should be ‘couple’
Or it exists and for some reason is “misplaced”.
As our sheriff pointed out to the over excited dog shooters on the force, in the police academy, cadets are trained to deal with dogs without shooting them. Since he laid down the law there have been no more dog shootings in this county and no police officers have suffered any injuries attributable to dogs. Several unruly dogs have been impounded after going after an officer but no officer has felt it incumbent on him to shoot a dog. Get as excited as you want, there is no call for police to shoot dogs that are not rabid unless they are in the middle of a legitimate raid and dealing properly with the dog would put the officer in harm’s way from the targets of the raid.
This officer should make personal restitution.
I just had a friend get badly bitten by a pitter who everyone thought was a real sweetie. "Why, she'd just lick you to death"--just a few weeks of rehab.
I hate them. Save me your tabula rasa "nurture vs nature" NONSENSE. They are a fighting breed. If a pit hurts somebody, let the owner do JAIL TIME.
A lot of this trigger/happy situation with dogs is caused by the neurotic attachment to this ugly and dangerous breed. People who are overwhelmed by their own dogs drop them off on my country road.
Satan won't allow humans any comfort. So he took the lovable pooch away and created a fascination with bully breeds. I associate these dogs with masculine insecurity.
These dogs/owners walk the streets and I see parents welcome the dogs with strollers and baby's faces. Oh, the terror.
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