Posted on 11/19/2014 10:48:36 AM PST by Bettyprob
Buffalo, NY — A high profile case of Buffalo police killing a man’s dog while looking for non-existent drugs, has led to a Freedom of Information request revealing some sadistic figures.
On June 3, 2013 Buffalo police raided a man’s home to look for crack cocaine. He was not there, nor was the crack.
The home belonged to Iraqi war veteran, Adam Arroyo and his 2-year-old pit bull Cindy.
Upon breaking down the door to Arroyo’s home, officers encountered Cindy, who was barely 50 pounds, and shot and killed her. They were at the wrong apartment.
According to use of force reports requested by WGRZ-TV under the Freedom of Information Law, Buffalo Police shot 92 dogs from Jan. 1, 2011 through Sept. 2014. Seventy-three of those dogs died. Nineteen survived.
To provide a comparison, Buffalo’s numbers more than triple the amount of dog shooting incidents involving police in Cincinnati, a municipality of similar size.
“The numbers are what the numbers are,” Buffalo Police Chief of Detectives Dennis Richards said in an interview with WGRZ. “Certainly, no officer takes any satisfaction in having to dispatch a dog.”
Perhaps an even more disturbing reality is that nearly 30 percent of these dog shootings in Buffalo were carried out by one man. The unidentified officer has shot 26 dogs, killing 25 of them, in just the last three years.
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You know yourself that almost every FReeper on here is strongly pro-life. What you are insinuating is insulting. If you don't care about "slaughtered dogs" then go participate in something you do care about.
No one forced you to post to this thread.
In my area there are no walking mailmen. They ride. Cant speak for other areas.
;-)
Doubtful.
Uh huh. Any word on the toddler who woke up with the flash-bang in their face?
When are they going to start painting dog silhouettes on their cruisers?
Obviously you learned that from your dog...
Until the people who foot the bills for police departments start questioning the validity of SWAT teams, cop brutality will get worse. They operate without constitutional authority, usually without necessity, and without sufficient oversight. SWAT is a game police play, and our animals are just one of the victims of that game.
No such luck.
I think it was Jay Leno’s crew.
Most dogs are better than most people i know
Everyone isn’t a one hit pony like you.
I can be against more than one thing at a time.
I don’t post about dog shooting on anti-abortion threads and your holier than thou posts don’t belong here.
It is a liberal trait to convince yourself you care more about stopping abortion simply because other post about other things.
You must live in a real upscale place out here the still walk routes
here’s to the dog and the Kittahs. Toast! In a world gone mad, one searches for loving or an oven!
Good question.
Many mail carriers walk most of their routes.
Kind of like the morons who visit every TV thread and post that they don’t have a TV.
I don’t knit so I have no interest in searching for knitting threads just to inform the knitters that I don’t knit therefore they shouldn’t knit either.
I was chased to the top of my car one night by a St. Bernard. I waited till he got bored and my partner showed up to block him so I could finish the call.
Of the three Depts. I worked for in that time period. No Officers that I worked with had shot any dogs either.
Must be a new breed of Officers ;(
Ed
ps; I had to put down my own dog when I was a kid. I guess that is why I don't care for shooting them.
? and I know you are right ....
LOL!
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