Posted on 07/07/2014 8:39:22 AM PDT by chessplayer
Apparently any idiot can be a police supervisor or local government official who does not DEMAND accountability of his police. Jail time for police thugs as well as for "civilian" thugs.
Perhaps the possibility of two or three weeks in the "general population" jail will motivate cops to think a bit before they act.
Thugs with Badges (whom I differentiate from actual police officers who enforce the law, respect the Constitution, and who engender the respect of the people they serve) are SOCIOPATHS.
The behavior of abusing animals is one of the hallmarks of sociopaths (along with the belief that rules don’t apply to them - they are above the law) and a fair number of these sociopaths are obviously in uniform.
http://voices.yahoo.com/10-sure-signs-dealing-sociopath-8765275.html
If anyone comes on our property and shoots our dogs then we'll get to see whether or not a shiny piece of metal pinned to someone's chest will stop a .50 round.
If police shot my dog for no apparent reason, they better hide their name tags.
Here in Pittsburgh we had a couple of weeks of public mourning and a big over-the-top funeral for a police dog who was stabbed to death by a drugged-out suspect.
Since then we’ve passed a new state law increasing penalties for killing a police dog.
Raising the very real possibility there will soon be someone in prison doing more time for killing a dog than the guy in the next cell got for killing a human being.
The headline remind me of the liberals screaming for gun control because “children” are killing “children” with guns. They don’t tell you that the “children” are gang-banging thugs that just happen to be teenagers.
Family pets my a$$. I shot a lot of dogs during my career, probably 99% were loose pit bulls that were chasing, biting or otherwise acting aggressively towards people. I NEVER shot a “family pet” although I was bitten by a few thanks to irresponsible owners who told me: “oh, don’t worry, sparky doesn’t bite.”
WND published this? NPR would be proud.
I think we are surrounded by idiots, by design.
The local police forces are rapidly becoming federalized, part of the “National Civilian Defense Force”, which is to be “as well funded, and as well trained” as the military service establishment. Because they are NOT formally organized as an army, they may bypass the prohibition against the “Posse Comitatus” deployment of Federal troops to maintain civil order.
This is but the beginning of intimidation against citizens, bordering on terrorism exercised against members of the community. Paraplegics hauled out of their wheelchairs, females getting beat up at the side of the road, and various other examples of gratuitous violence, often for the sake of violence alone, being applied to “let them know who’s boss”.
Jack-booted thugs with a badge and gun are still thugs.
It appears the problem is that an alarming number of these pet murders didn’t happen in a “’hood” full of gang bangers and vicious dogs running loose in the streets, but in burbs and rural areas where the dogs-whatever their breed-were family pets either chasing squirrels in the woods or hanging out in their fenced yards-also known as “private property”.
Some years ago when I lived in a ‘burb, a neighbor’s Norwegian Elkhound was shot in the fenced yard by a cop who hopped her fence chasing a kid through the neighborhood for dropping a water balloon on the patrol car from a tree along the curb. The cop was fired, and successfully sued by my neighbor till his eyes fell out, which is what should happen.
I live in an isolated rural area-dogs and guns are the first 911 here because the other 911 could easily take 1/2 hour or more to get here, so mastiffs of all kinds are the dog-du-jour here for security along with donkeys and llamas-properties are fenced and gates here are large and kept locked...
There’s no excuse for shooting a pet on private property-both the place and the pet belong to the owner, period, and the idiot who does such a thing deserves a lawsuit, I don’t give a damn who they are...
Yeah, but it’s MY pet.
If a cop shoots somebodies pet on private property where they have entered without a warrant they should be prosecuted and sued. The policeman in this situation should be removed from the force.
However, these incidents are still not that common. When they do happen they get publicized like great white shark attacks.
My point is, the majority of dogs being shot by police are of the pit bull variety in a high stress situation in a bad neighborhood.
Dogs don’t shoot back.
How else would you name tyrannical enemies of the people?
Police are no longer servants, but aspire to be our masters. Just like 1984.
That is a fact not in evidence.
And eve if it were true, the circumstances matter greatly.
Brilliant insight.
Why are police shooting so many family dogs?
Why are police accepting so many substandard officers?
Aren’t reduced standards great?
Its called SWAT-Special Weapons and Tactics, borrowed from Military Weapons and Tactics.
Either way, all potential threats and distractions have to be neutralized. A barking dog is a distraction, even if he poses no threat. Or a loose dog that is not threatening an officer, but since the dog is loose, he distracts the officer's attention
So it began as a military tactic then became a SWAT tactic. As time went by and more and more officers served on SWAT, the tactic shifted to all police activity & enforcement
[ Whats the problem, dogs are wrecking the environment. Did you know that as part of Cap & Trade, that there will be a national license fee for dogs of $500/ year, plus fees.
Seriously???, No Seriously, Citation Needed...
Well, I made that up, but hey, with NSA checking all our emails and posts, they may get the idea:-(
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