I’m not all PETA about animals, but they have more value than property, and a life is forever gone and there is real emotional damage when the dog is dead. Animal value is somewhere between chairs and humans, and should be closer to humans than chairs. I’d put the value of my dogs a lot higher than most humans because my dogs won’t fuck me over and are always honest.

2. That the review board (or whatever) said that this behavior is OK only goes to show that the wrong people and rules are being applied to oversee the police.

1) To “the law”, dogs are just property. However, you have a right to protect your property with necessary force.

2) You have a moral obligation to question the validity of all laws. If they don’t promote justice, then it’s an invalid law.

3) Animals aren’t just property to most people with common sense, especially dogs, whom people develop a real bond with. They are emotional and spiritual creatures, not a chair or TV. There is no equating dogs and chairs, thus dogs aren’t property like a chair. Therefore “the law” in 1) is invalid.

4) Cops far too often indiscriminately prance around people’s private property in the name of “the law”, which absolves them of ALL wrong doings, especially violent acts. Reality shows that it’s pretty much impossible to get fired as a cop, regardless of what you do.

5) You have a right and duty to protect your private property.

6) You should never obey a cop just because they say so. It is your moral obligation to question their authority and demands, unless you consider yourself a slave (or you haven’t realized it yet that you yield all power to a cop, which still makes you a slave).

7) When you sue a cop, you don’t sue them directly in 99.9% of the cases, you sue this concept of a “city”. The money is paid for by your fellow taxpayer, therefore the cop doesn’t personally feel the pain.

8) The only way cops feel pain is by their superiors, AKA The Blue Wall of Silence.

9) Expecting a system/cops to fairly question and punish itself is like asking a burglar to protect your house while you take a vacation, the fox to guard the hen house, etc. It can only work if all people in the system are completely virtuous, which we already know to be very false with humans, especially with cops.

10) I can’t stress enough the damage done by these cops to the family and especially the children. To see your dog blown away, to have its blood on your hands, and to the child that let the dog out the door to pee which led to it getting blown away … that child will feel tremendous guilt for years BECAUSE of the cops and their actions (and in my opinion highly illegal, definitely immoral and stupid).

11) Why is it always “last thing we want to do is pull a gun and shoot”, yet it’s always the first solution? For crying out loud, they outnumbered the dog, they could just kick it or at least ATTEMPT to get it to understand who the alpha is. You don’t have to be a dog owner, around dogs, or anything else to at least TRY really quickly to yell/move at the dog as if you’re the superior being. Cops are trained to act this way towards Citizen Nothings (most cower in fear when the cop yells etc.), so to not attempt that towards a dog is ludicrous. This bullshit “Get Out Of Jail Free” card of “we have to make split second decisions” is exactly that … bullshit.

Bottom line is that the sense of empowerment and entitlement to shit and piss all over Citizen Nothings is a systemic problem. It is NOT right to claim “just following policy” etc. Cops are far too often stomping on a pacified citizenry, and turning some into being afraid for their life and/or having real, measurable emotional damage. You understand this even more if you, or someone you’re close to, has EVER been falsely accused of a crime you obviously never committed.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_E_puppy08.45cf726.html

While this did not occur while the he was on duty, he is a firefighter… and he refuses to meet with the police over the “incident”.

Terrible story.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/topics/?topic=Glynn+Johnson

They are using a double standard right now. Police dogs are officers, but family dogs are not family members. What kind of logic lets that happen?

And it doesn’t matter if they dog is leashed in the back yard. They shoot tethered dogs too.

My guess is it would be pretty hard to find a jury of 12 people where one of them wasn’t a dog lover.

Check out the comments at the story: poster after poster attacks the family for letting a dog out into their own backyard. Apparently all of them assume that a dog needs to be on leash, even in a person’s own yard.

No, it is the retards that we call the press corp/media. The story has the dog “escaping” from the fenced in backyard. Which of course doesn’t quite fit with the cop yelling, “Get your dog, get your dog!”.

I’m guessing the guy over-reacted and panicked. Of course the corollary to that is get him off the streets, get his gun away from him, and take his badge and at best send him back for more training. Since I’m a dog lover though, if I were the police chief I’d simply make his life Hell till he quit. Crappy desk job, crappy hours, no promotion, no hope of a career in law enforcement.

My friend was married to a NC cop for a few years. He was told that if a dog moved toward him in an aggressive way (barking, growling, etc.), and he felt he was in physical danger, he had the right to shoot to kill. No questions asked.

But that is standard for dogs when someone is invading their territory. Dogs don’t see colors, so the man in blue thing isn’t going to be seen as special (which probably pisses off most cops), nor does a dog respect the badge. So this is basically a license to kill any and all dogs a cop sees.

Coordinated band-of-blue comment spamming in order to shape public opinion? … or just a bunch of dumbasses?

You repeat yourself.

It’s just so sad that our brave men in blue are terrorized by Labradors and Terriers.

Perhaps the PD should consider training their officers to discern the difference between aggressive and fear behavior. I own a small excitable dog, about the size of a terrier, who is not comfortable around anyone in dark clothing. He has barked at police officers because he was afraid of them, not because he is a dangerous animal.

Just like you and me. Only better.

I’m also willing to put them in danger – they signed up, they knew the risks, they can get bitten by dogs or shot by criminals, that’s their look out. The rest of us didn’t sign up to have our pets or our persons injured or killed by a bunch of power-tripping frat dick yahoos, so make them assume the risk.

While they may be members of the family to many, that doesn’t mean they are not also (and legally) property. They are.

I am the cop/blogger that Rick spoke of above.

I am not going to get involved in the discussion beyond saying that I have received absolutely no training in dealing with dogs except a lifetime of having them in my house.

That being said, I have managed to function 15 years as a police officer and have had to shoot one dog after dealing with many. This one dog was a pit bull that had attacked one officer and bit him and then turned as was coming to me.

Most dogs can be dealt with by displaying “Alpha” characteristics and submit if done properly. It’s worked for me. That may be displayed by a whack with a clipboard or control stick or simply by body language and tone of voice.

I absolutely hate the idea of killing any animal.

Taking people to court isn’t any fun.

Shooting guns is LOTSA fun.

They’re not property, they’re members of the family.
The whole “pets are property” sentiment is bullshit.

Post your own policy at the property line! Don’t give a shit about your legal intentions, my intentions are to repel your invasion, my dog would but bite, I bite with a bit more force and my dog authorized me to do so!

Dear cop, my dog hired an enforcer for his/her rights!

You probably really do not desire to hang around here any longer if you have transgressed those rights. As perceived by a dog!

Nuff said?

didn’t think so! So invoking the second amendment for exactly what it means, some more LE asswipes/personnel will get honors today.

WHERE IN THE HELL DID ANDY GRIFFITH GO WRONG? How in the hell did Barney Fife win that election?

And today it’s national!