Posted on 01/23/2011 7:41:15 PM PST by Immerito
Confronted by the family pet, police often shoot first and ask questions later, reports Radley Balko. Among hundreds of recent victims: Labradors, Wheaten terriers, and a five-pound Chihuahua.
Beginning next year, police departments in Maryland will be required to report to the governor's office every time they kill a dog during a drug raid. That requirement is part of a new law pushed by Cheye Calvo, the mayor of the small town of Berwyn Heights.
Calvo proposed the legislation because police officers conducted a particularly violent raid last summer on his home in Prince George's County after intercepting a package of marijuana at a delivery-service warehouse. The cops then completed the delivery themselves to the address on the package. As it turns out, the house belonged Calvo, who had no connection to the drugs. The package was part of a botched distribution scheme in which an accomplice working for the delivery service was supposed to have intercepted it before it was delivered.
Youre kicking down doors, barging in with guns, and when animals do what animals do, they become collateral damage.
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Gets around that icky "Posse Commitatus" stuff.
Wonder how Randy Weaver’s kid is doing these days? No follow up stories?
Which kid?
As I recall, he had three (that lived).
Yes, all of them.
You know, considering that they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment for these goobers with badges, why can’t they spend another few hundred on a high-pressure water fire extinguisher? That will give ANY dog, even trained attack dogs, second thoughts.
On the subject of equipment, these clowns aren’t busting in wearing sandals, bermuda shorts and Izod short-sleeve shirts. Steel-toed boots, Kevlar/bullet-proof everything, and so on. This is way beyond what the people who have the unfortunate, but neccessary job as “the attacker” in dog training wear. You mean they are scared of getting bit? Why am I paying for all of this crap, then?
If they are that afraid of dogs, they really should be in another line of work where they will be warm and safe. Maybe as florists.
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