[ApplegateRanch]

The key to finding the suspect and not shooting the dog is, “what did the dog do in the backyard?”

“The dog did nothing, until we arrived.”

“Corret! Ergo, the suspect wasn’t in the yard; if it barked at, and menaced, you, it would also have barked and menaced the suspect.”

Stupid badges can’t think; just react.

[allmendream]

Yes, once the police officers noticed that there was a guard dog on duty in that back yard, that started barking when THEY intruded, it should have immediately dawned upon their thick skulls that the suspect was almost certainly NOT in that particular back yard.

It is a good thing most criminals are absolute morons, because cops are freaking idiots!