[grumpygresh]

“How about we put you in place o9f the K9’s”

They might be important, but they’re only dogs not people and not officers. Now we have cops that think that dogs can be officers. They might be intelligent for dogs, but this would be taking DEI to the extreme by making them into police officers. Maybe they could run for political office and you could vote for one of them?

Let’s stop the confusion. People can’t be dogs, dogs can’t be police officers.

[Jamestown1630]

'taking DEI to the extreme'

Do you hear yourself?

In this context, that's a simpleminded statement.

The dogs are actually *skilled*, and used and valued FOR their skills. I don't think we're training them to shoot guns, or do stakeouts or traffic stops.

They are recognized and honored precisely FOR their value to their force - not because anyone thinks they're equal to humans. And the instinct to honor them by thinking of them symbolically as fellow officers is a beautiful idealistic human impulse.

Jeez. When you allow the radicals to make you so mad that you lose your own ability to think critically and put things in proper context, you're no smarter than they are.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

The reason they have them as officers is so that criminals will be less likely to mess with them cause there will be additional charges. duh