I believe the DOJ report is linked somewhere in that article, if not I’ll dig it up if requested.
Cops in this country kill so many dogs each year that a specialist at the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) community-oriented program services office says it has become an “epidemic.” The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.
My first reaction to that final quoted sentence is “well they are callous with human life, why wouldn’t they be with a dog?”
But my second reaction is, “Don’t they have to account for every on-duty weapon discharge??” You’d think putting “shot dog” as the reason you fired your weapon would be trackable.
It also implies that the same cop has killed a dog more than once. Which would get you fired in pretty much any other situation. But of course, cops are always immune from that sort of thing.
I believe in most countries that number is close to zero. No way majority of the 10,000 dogs are life-threatening, and yet the US police disagree and shoot. Tells so much about US police’s justification on shooting at people.
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/jun/16/doj-police-shooting-family-dogs-has-become-epidemic/
I believe the DOJ report is linked somewhere in that article, if not I’ll dig it up if requested.
Holy fuck! I knew it was bad but 10,000 a year?!
My first reaction to that final quoted sentence is “well they are callous with human life, why wouldn’t they be with a dog?”
But my second reaction is, “Don’t they have to account for every on-duty weapon discharge??” You’d think putting “shot dog” as the reason you fired your weapon would be trackable.
It also implies that the same cop has killed a dog more than once. Which would get you fired in pretty much any other situation. But of course, cops are always immune from that sort of thing.
No, they don’t have to account for every discharge, in fact no one in the US has any idea how many times police fire their weapons.
I believe in most countries that number is close to zero. No way majority of the 10,000 dogs are life-threatening, and yet the US police disagree and shoot. Tells so much about US police’s justification on shooting at people.