I have been looking around at the various news archives here. Do you know that going back more than 10 years I cannot find a single incident of a Japanese cop shooting a dog? Not a single one. Zero.
Now, granted, Japanese do not usually go for big dogs — at least not in the cities — and overall gun ownership is very very low — although all police do carry them — but still...
These stories out of America are just coming too fast and furious to be happenstance. I wonder what the figures are for Canada, Mexico, or even Brazil. What the hell is going on????
There seems to be a lot of them lately. A couple years ago it was shark stories. Now it's cop bang dead dog.
I note that most serial killers started off torturing and killing animals...
Maybe Japanese cops carry a pork chop around with them for just those situations. (snicker)