[Tupelo]

“a cop could use a dog to do the work that he knows he would be charged with if he did it himself.”

I have known a lot of cops in my time and not once have I met one that bit a suspect in the groin or would even want to.

That said, I would venture to suspect should be more than a little relived that the dog was trained to go for the (no, I can't say it)groin area rather than the throat.

[Salamander]

Police dogs are trained to grab for the arm or the hand, if the suspect has a gun.

Their job is to -detain- the suspect by those grabs.

No law enforcement agency trains their dogs to go for the crotch.

The story doesn’t add up.

[Boogieman]

“That said, I would venture to suspect should be more than a little relived that the dog was trained to go for the (no, I can’t say it)groin area rather than the throat.”

That’s a pretty disturbing sentiment. Police dogs should not be trained to go for either of those places. They are meant to assist officers in their duties, not to be living weapons to kill and maim. Any police officer who is training a police dog to go for those areas is demonstrating malicious intent against the citizenry and is probably not fit for that job.