guess it's only a matter of time till they are ALL dominated by them... guess they aren't as tough as they thought they were when they came up against real criminals instead of simple victims
Posted on 10/11/2013 7:03:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
During the first six months of 2013, 100 percent of the people bitten by dogs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Canine Services were black or Latino.
That's 100 percent. As in every single one.
The data comes from a report by the Police Assessment Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that aims to "strengthen police oversight so as to advance effective, respectful and publicly accountable policing."
Clearly, these people have job security -- they have their work cut out for them in Los Angeles.
According to PARC's records, the number of Latinos bitten by LASD dogs increased 30 percent from 30 bites in 2004 to 39 in 2012. The number of blacks bitten increased 33 percent for the same time period, from 9 to 12. And when it came to the beginning of 2013, white people didn't have to worry about police-initiated animal attacks at all.
It's no secret that L.A.'s law-enforcement officers have historically struggled with racial profiling (that's putting it as mildly as calling Rodney King's infamous brutal beating an "incident"). And just this year, the New York City Police Department was forced to revamp its stop-and-frisk policy thanks in part to data on the shockingly disproportionate number of times that black and Latino men were apprehended by officers.
But seriously -- are man's best friends now profiling perpetrators, too?
Not likely (although there is actually a case to be made that doggie racism is a real thing). Given the context, our best guess is that this is simply more bad news about humans dealing with the whole "a person's race isn't a good reason to decide they're dangerous" thing, which seems to be becoming more difficult to grasp all the time.
Just like judgment calls about who's "suspicious," and determinations about when to pull out handcuffs,
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The dog can sense if a person is scared and that’s what sets the dogs off.I walk up to all dogs and have never been bitten.Call me crazy.
“Next door neighbor raised a Dobi”
A whut?
Need to check more close,hbefore posting.
Just a slight e/mple!
Please tell me I’m having a flashback because of my degenerate, wasted youth. Surely this can’t be happening in the real world, it must be something my damaged brain cells have concocted.
Most black areas in LA have been dominated by Hispanics.
guess it's only a matter of time till they are ALL dominated by them... guess they aren't as tough as they thought they were when they came up against real criminals instead of simple victims
I suspect that some dogs don’t like the food smells that are characteristic of some groups. Asian spices, Mexican chili spices, etc. might set off a dog.
My son’s K9, with a very sensitive nose, barks at some dogs (waging a tail sometimes, putting on a napkin at other times), while not barking at others.
However, my daughter’s late mixed Cocker Spaniel/collie, etc once growled so fiercely at a drunk Hispanic who stopped walking in front of my house and looked at my granddaughter in a very threatening way.
The dog, Chico, nearly pulled me off my feet, but I was able to restrain him from attacking this guy, while telling my granddaughter to get inside and also yelling to my cop son, get your badge and gun.
The drunk finally staggered down the street to a private home, but we still had the police pay him a visit, esp. after hearing he “eyed” my granddaughter.
A couple months later, he “totalled” a new Mercedes by hitting another parked car a few houses down. We never saw him again, after his jail stay.
Sometimes dogs sense something is wrong with a person long before humans can, which is why they are called K9’s, and not Feefie.
It’s amazing how LA County has changed. There used to be well defined white/black/hispanic and Asian areas.
Whites have been pushed west and north, Asians have swelled and are moving east. Hispanics have mushroomed into almost every area in huge numbers, blacks are being dispersed and pushed out.
“Next door neighbor raised a Dobi”
A whut?
Bummer daze.
I had a dog that was racist. He had no problems with blacks but he hated Mexicans. Since he was a 150 lb Great Dane and our mailman was Mexican-American, that created problems.
I agree with the dogs.
Horsefeathers. Dogs are equal opportunity biters. Me, too.
Lol!
My cats say, are you crazy?
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