In our old neighborhood, we were walking our dogs on their leashes and one of our neighbors called out to us. She lived two doors down so we dropped one leash so our dog could run up to her and be lavished with petting, hugs and kisses. Our neighbor had a visitor- a fat, mannish lady cop. who was standing right next to our neighbor. When the cop saw our fat, ecstatic, flatulent, drooling basset bouncing up to our neighbor and roll over on his back to get his belly scratched, she had her hand on her gun. She didn’t pull it out of the holster but still. She was in a stance with her legs apart and looked to be at the ready.
I feel for all those families who have had their dogs killed by overzealous and very often wrong policemen. This story about this policeman is amazing and one that I wish were repeated in life more often.
There are still a lot of good cops out there.
One problem I see (former State LEO and adult probation officer)is the training. There is much more emphasis on what I call RoBOCoP training. Many young officers look like “Arnold” with the craze for body building. Some around here actually look like they are on steroids. That would explain the aggression.
We had a couple like that about 35 years ago but it was rare.
Also with all the Homeland Security idiots running around it increases their level of paranoia.
I understand times are different but even back then I was a half second from having to shoot. Thank God I didn't have to but I would have and not lost sleep over it.
Most cops back then had more common sense. We had some gung-ho types but we always told them to join the Army if they wanted to act like that. We were trained to DEFUSE a situation not make it worse.
Some of that may have been from being on the road alone with no help for miles. That dog looks just like one that came up to our house about a year ago. Sweetest dog we ever had. She wags her tail and her whole butt shakes. The vets. lover her.