Never shot a dog, and don’t intend to. Love ‘em and carry treats for them in my beat.
But there is no current training that I can think of that can train some officers not to be afraid of a dog. That baggage they bring with them.
I wish there was technology that officers had to mitigate these incidents, but when a pit bull is charging you, as has happened with some of my colleagues, you are going to go with the tool that is most effective and the quickest to deploy.
I would like to see specific training introduced in the police academy in handling dogs, as there are simple methods to defuse encounters, like banging on the fence prior to entering a yard for a call for service to determine if a dog is present.
Explanation accepted. Thank you for your service.
Just curious: do Tasers work on pit bulls? Serious question.