Even during highly charged police raids on houses guarded by aggressive dogs, it’s hard to see how shooting them is the best option. A grazing shot will only make the dog angrier. A miss imperils other officers and innocent bystanders.
During a terribly tragic drug raid in Lima, Ohio, last year, an officer shot and killed the suspect’s two pit bulls shortly after the drug team entered the house. Another officer mistook the shots for hostile fire, and sprayed bullets into a bedroom, where a 26-year-old unarmed woman named Tarika Wilson had dropped to her knees, as ordered, while holding her 1-year-old son. Wilson died, the infant lost a hand.
Good point. If the cops regulated their testosterone better, there would be fewer instances like this. Someone somewhere must have done a study. What makes cops this way? I’m tired of their power trips.