Posted on 03/07/2014 10:01:14 AM PST by Altariel
” we teach our officers that they need to protect themselves in all situations”
Translation: “screw everyone else, no matter what”
God, I hate these dog killers.
It's possible the Pekingese was deaf, and was trying to use sign language to communicate with the Farce Enlawment orifices (FEOs)...
I like it, and add grounds patrolled by guard dogs and trespassers will be shot. However, I bet the last item is probably illegal in much of the formerly free USA.
So, he couldn’t have out ran the dog to the end of the leash?
Are mailmen taught to protect themselves at all times. Are firemen told to hit dogs with axes?
*brainless* quadriplegics...I might add.
As I said above the only caveat is that the cop must go home every night....I believe I saw an article that cops jobs are no longer listed on *most dangerous jobs*.
What are those three things on his and her right front belts?
Extra magazines?
So now you want the dog’s owners shot, too? You Barney Fife types make me sick. Scared of a Lab? Jeeze.
Bingo!
(I'm deeply saddened, but it seems that a kitty got his tongue...)
I can see that you can neither read nor think. If your domesticated “puppy” acts like a feral wild beast in public, a bullet to its head might be the shortest way to end the threat.
I worked on a site out in the country. Crappy paint job splattered on a 4’x8’ piece of plywood said “Nothing back here worth dieing for.”
A store-bought sign at the gate said
“Trespassers will be shot.
Survivors will be shot again.”
“If your domesticated “puppy” acts like a feral wild beast in public, a bullet to its head might be the shortest way to end the threat.”
Agreed. How about if it is on a leash/running wire in its own backyard, as in this case?
“How about if it is on a leash/running wire in its own backyard, as in this case?”
I doubt an angelic puppy would have been shot.
From the article: “...one neighbor told Reed on Tuesday that Scarlett had tried in the past to bite his niece, causing him to call Animal Control”
Also, the cop was not there as part of the gestapo roundup. Again, from the article:
“McGlone’s daughter called police to say she hadn’t heard from her mother”.
Here is what it looks like:
- police was asked to come to the house to check for, among other things, any possible foul play
- police sees a rabid dog charging at it
- the dog has attempted to bite people and animal control had been called
The dog, (that vicious breed Labrador Retriever), Was in his own yard, on a leash attached to a cable. The COWARD POS, I mean LEO, could have retreated. He could have checked for a dog in the yard, FIRST, since the obvious cable for the dog run was in plain view. The first thing a non vicious dog does is BARK (a warning) that the LEO should have heeded.
The need for LEOs to shoot dogs has to be looked into. Is it some kind of pent up anger since they can’t just shoot perps?
As I have said before both my wife and I had jobs that involved going up to and around stranger’s houses (my wife wore a uniform), many of which had dogs. Some of them not being especially nice dogs. We never shot one single dog. My wife would visit more stranger’s houses in one day than most cops visit in a year. We never got bitten other than a couple minor nips. We were careful. We understand dogs. We are not especially afraid of dogs, in fact we love dogs.
These cops need not discharge their weapon unless in fear of their “LIFE”. If they are so stupid, so untrained, so ignorant about dog behavior, they DESERVE to be bitten. The Dog doesn’t deserve to be KILLED.
Just doing a small bit of research, I discovered that about 15 adults are killed by dogs per year. In the year of 2013, the combination of pit bulls (25), Rottweiler’s (1) and bullmastiffs (2) accounted for 88% of all dog bite-related fatalities
If you break it down many were elderly, many were attacked by multiple dogs, many lived with the dog.
So, if the dog encountered isn’t a pit bull, a Rottweiler or a Bullmastiff, the odds of an LEO being killed by a dog are about ZERO.
I googled “law enforcement officers killed by dogs” and I got a full page of “Dogs killed by cops” none the other way around.
It seems the only cops that come up are Police DOGS that got killed and are given a full police funeral. All dogs are not created equal I guess.
Don’t tell me that by shooting the dogs the cops avoided being killed, skewing the statistics, because it is very doubtful that any of these dogs would have even seriously injured he cops. If the dog actually bit the cop, he could sue the pants off the owner. Of course a dog on a chain in his own back yard would likely win that case. I actually had that happen and the person cutting through our yard had no case. Our yard, dog chained. Felt bad for the kid, but legally not our responsibility, but we did have the dog destroyed.
http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities.php
Sheriff’s office: York County deputy who shot driver made ‘life-or-death decision’
Good point. Those that threaten anonymously are usually wimpyass metros who would be real surprised to find out we do bite rather than bark.
Could not have said it better than your referred to post.
You wouldn’t happen to be one of those dog shooters, would you? If so don’t come here, my dogs lives hold much more value than any scaredy-cat chickenshite donut muncher.
I do believe there are still many very good police, but they are becoming a rarity.
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