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Police dogs are used to help the police. It may save them time to let the dog out and chase a person down or it can be to send a dog into a dangerous situation where a police officer could lose his life. Rather then have the cop dead they will send in the dog first. We had a stand off years ago in Bradley Beach where the criminal was holding hostages, the dog was sent in and he killed it. They had a big funeral over the dog if I am remembering correctly. My advice to you would be this......don't mess with a police dog. If one is ever set on you do not run. Most K9 officers love their dogs and they are as close to them as they are to their fellow officers. Hurt one and you are in big trouble. Thats just the way it is. I guess it comes down to this, the dog has more rights then you if you are breaking the law. The dog is considered an officer of the law it seems.

Police dogs are used to help the police subjugate the citizens.

There, all fixed.

"the dog has more rights then you if you are breaking the law."

More rights than me, period. Doesn't matter what I'm doing or where I'm at if I'm attacked by a police dog my only recourse is to take it. If the cop meant for the dog to seize me it's a "good use of force", if the dog just decides on it's own to chew on me it's mere negligence and the officer's qualified immunity kicks in.

Police dogs are used to help the police. It may save them time to let the dog out and chase a person down or it can be to send a dog into a dangerous situation where a police officer could lose his life. Rather then have the cop dead they will send in the dog first. We had a stand off years ago in Bradley Beach where the criminal was holding hostages, the dog was sent in and he killed it. They had a big funeral over the dog if I am remembering correctly. My advice to you would be this......don't mess with a police dog. If one is ever set on you do not run. Most K9 officers love their dogs and they are as close to them as they are to their fellow officers. Hurt one and you are in big trouble. Thats just the way it is. I guess it comes down to this, the dog has more rights then you if you are breaking the law. The dog is considered an officer of the law it seems.

I know, I just don't think it is right. Much as I love dogs, animals in general, mankind drew a line thousands of years ago, that animal life is not the same as human life. This was not some arbitrary decision, but rather the way of nature, humans getting on the top of the foodchain. A dog being an "officer" is ridiculous, no matter how I look at it. I am otherwise a law abiding citizen, I never had an encounter with a police dog, or policeman for that matter (other than speeding tickets), so it isn't some personal issue for me.

Gabor