I think the answer is there is certain demographic that is deathly afraid of any dogs and lose their minds when any are loose.
I have seen it personally on the many calls for unconfined animal calls I have been on. You would think there was Bengal Tiger stalking the streets.
As far as the story goes, three more casualties in the beyond stupid War on Drugs.
Yup, and they call the cops because animal control won't shoot them. They'll even make up a story to tell the cops.