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I don't think mixing the stories proves anything.

The media could have run a story like this one on us:

"Police shoot three dogs while serving warrant" 'Animal rights groups horrified at conduct of SWAT team, shooting two dogs yesterday.'

"The police didn't need to shoot those dogs" said Joe Neighbor. "This is an outrage."

The Police SWAT team entered a house at 1212 Such and Such St. to serve a warrant on the owner. When they went in they shot the mans two dogs and gave no account of themselves. Two other dogs were taken from the house and taken to the pound.

See, I just created a media story that reflected one side of an incident that happened here in my city and that I was a part of.

We served a warrant on a nuisance crack house last year. There were several shootings by rival drug gangs because of the drug wars going on between them. The police dept. got criticized for not acting soon enough for some citizens.

These guys lived in a side by side duplex. We knocked at the back door and they barricaded it. We broke the door down and went in. We were told that they had pit bulls in the house that they had specifically for the police. When we went in a couple of the pit bulls attacked our guys and they got shot.

Unbeknowst to us, the drug dealers knocked a hole in the wall in the basement between the two duplex's and fled into the other side.

The dogs that did not get shot were taken to the pound. We found in the garage that the drug dealers had been letting their pit bulls tear other dogs apart trying to make them vicious.

But, a newspaper story like the one I made up could come out and people would be pointing fingers at the police saying how evil they are.

We served a warrant on a nuisance crack house last year. There were several shootings by rival drug gangs because of the drug wars going on between them.

There's a big difference between raiding a crack house, and serving a warrant for a parking ticket.

Look, I know you're a cop, and from the majority of your posts I've read on the donut watch threads, you've usually spoken out against bad police, and I've always thought that you you seemed to be one of the "good guys'.

But shooting the dogs while trying to serve an arrest warrant for a parking violation is just a bit of overkill, so to speak.