Intentional cruelty against animals is a crime. Unintentional injury to animals is not. Worship of animals is paganism.
>Intentional cruelty against animals is a crime. Unintentional injury to animals is not. Worship of animals is paganism.<
Ok, I missed any mention of animal worship, but at least one of these dogs was a trained police dog and as such, was a valuable tool. That ignoramus of an officer was equipped to know that a hot car can kill a dog - he’d killed a spaniel in the same manner before.
So, your suggestion of unintentional injury is a stretch in this case. He destroyed police property by gross negligence.
Should he have attempted suicide over the loss of the dogs? Well, no, but we don’t know what demons with which the man had to deal.