“I’m from a small town in the mid-west and I trust and support law enforcement here totally. They are not perfect, but none of us are. They try to be professional and they do a good job of it as well.”
Look...a person with a loaded gun who is afraid of a chained dog 30 feet away is simply in the wrong line of work. I don’t care if they are in the ‘hood or in Mayberry RFD.
I see a lot of people every week (”urban outdoorsmen”) who I think are “scary” - and I’ll be a lot of other people do, too. Do you think that someone should shoot them before they do something? And they aren’t even chained up!
Even if it is a 50 chain or you don’t know how long it is? Should she wait to have the dog have the chain stretched taught before doing anything about it? What if the slack is never taken up.
I think the officer did not know the chain was thirty feet long. If so, then you have a point, but if not, then she needs some slack at least as long as the slack in the chain.