Cops Gone Wild: Why do Cops like to shoot dogs...?

[Conan The Librarian]

It probably just gets reported more today. When I was growing up, it was pretty common for a cop to shoot a bad dog. Nobody thought anything of it. This was an urban setting too.
 
I think people realized that if a dog bit a kid or a post man, the dog was as good as dead. I think people generally realized that they were responsible for the behavior of their dogs.  Sometime between then and now the concept of dogs as animals generally recognized as benign came into play, and it became a legal doctrine.
 
Now, after reading some of the stories in the original post, I think that approach is new. I never heard of anything like that happening years ago. Seems like a double standard at work, where if you kill your dog because it does something dangerous, you have committed a felony that can lead to prison time. But if a cop kills your dog because he fears for his life, it's OK and you have no recourse. Police state stuff.

[reliquary]

Good point, Conan.  With today's instant media outlets and videos gone viral, you could get thousands of "hits" on the same incident and it could appear to be an epidemic.  Of course, to someone whose mind is mired in conspiracy theories of infinite proportions, common sense and reliable data won't matter, anyway.

In the time that I was actively employed as a cop, a dog which bit anyone was quarantined until its shot data could be located, and euthanized for a rabies scan if it hadn't had its vaccinations.
 
It would appear that there are legal remedies for unjustified shootings of dogs by police, and that they are being pursued in the instances posted. 

[Conan The Librarian]

I remember a policy like that too, except that the dog's head would be sent to the lab for analysis to determine whether it had rabies. Likewise for racoons.

[Conan The Librarian]

TM7,


As strange as it seems, the rules for a cop firing a gun when I was growing up did have a very formal protocol around it, and I knew a lot of cops. Most of the adult men I knew were cops, just sayin for context. If a cop fire a gun or even drew a gun on or off duty, there was a formal inquiry. But when there was a dog involved, the rules seemed to be different. There may have been an inquiry, but they were just formalities in those cases. Maybe that was just at a special point in time, but it really did work that way. Probably because there were a lot of pest animals around, like alligators and rattlesnakes, and rabid racoons. So place was probably a factor too.

[reliquary]

TM7:  I've posted data, and am willing to let the numbers show whatever they show.  You're still posting unsubstantiated allegations. 
 
Once again, skip your usual hysteria and show the bases for your allegations, please.
 
Three-hundredths of one percent does not an epidemic make, except in the minds of paranoiacs.
 
 

[-Shaggy-]

The cops don't always shoot the dogs......
 
 
http://www.khou.com/community/La-Porte-police-officer-shuts-down-highway-to-save-dog-190926421.html

[reliquary]

Thanks, shaggy.
 
TM7:  here's a new direction for your paranoia...I heard that these kids get a puppy at the beginning of their training and have to strangle it after it grows up, in order to graduate. Then they get a special dagger inscribed FEMAJUGEND and a tattoo in the armpit.  And their uniform patch has lightning bolts and swords on it.    http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-graduates-first-corps-of-obamas-brown-shirts-homeland-youth/
 
Gotta be true...I read it on the Internet.

[reliquary]

TM7:  show me some numbers, then, rather than anecdotal hysteria.  I agree with what you just said, though....03% doesn't constitute a real problem...when did you come back in touch with reality?
 
Did you check out the newest generation of jackbooted thugs-in-training?

[nw_hunter]

TM7:  show me some numbers, then, rather than anecdotal hysteria.  I agree with what you just said, though....03% doesn't constitute a real problem...when did you come back in touch with reality?
 
Did you check out the newest generation of jackbooted thugs-in-training?

I wondered how long it would take this post to go from a spark to a flame! Lasted longer than I thought it would. It's morphed into a  TM7.....Reliquary spitting contest. It's even made it from dogs to Muzzies.  Knock of the personal attacks and this one will continue.

[-Shaggy-]

The cops probably should have shot this dog, but they didn't........
 
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265644/Police-officers-raise-14-000-save-dog-left-dying-road-ribs-exposed-FIVE-hours-hit-car-owner-said-didnt-want-fix-him.html