Posted on 05/07/2008 6:09:50 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
Many have the same opinion about you. lol
So are humans. So what's your point?
The Tribune article has this piece in it: " Police dogs are protected under state law that makes it a felony to even taunt them.
So, maybe you can explain this ~ a dog knows maybe a couple of dozen words. How does he know he's being "taunted"?
Once you figure that out you can tell us how dogs take an oath of office and sign their names.
I still prefer animals. They are neither righteous nor arrogant.
Weren't you arguing too that tigers couldn't jump that high?
BTW, the policeman who did the shooting is named Christian Sciulli the only other news on this guy is the time he let his dog bite a protestor in the butt ~ didn't break skin but it tore her pants. He then arrested her for letting the dog touch her.
Her lawyer got that dismissed, but the prosecutor's office followed it up with yet another charge.
I think Sciulli is a tad strange ~ always in trouble, and does not control his dog.
Police dogs and their handlers receive thousands of hours of training. The dogs are most often imported around two years old and usually cost between eight and twelve thousand dollars. The training usually starts around six weeks and never stops until they are retired at about 8 to 10 years. Their abilities based on the training they receive is not easily replaced.
Instinct. I suggest you try an experiment the next time you run across any decent sized dog. Make some overtly aggressive move --- Pretend you're hurting it's owner.
Hell, I had a 50 pound mutt from the animal rescue league that was as friendly as any dog I have ever seen who would have ripped you apart if you trying to hurt any of 'her people.' The dog did not allow anyone to do anything that looked like aggression to anyone in her family.
She wasn't trained to do that. It's instinct to protect her "pack." That's why dogs are used for police work. The guys with the blue uniforms are their family.
I don’t have clue what your talking about, and your response had nothing to do with my response to your comments.
No they don't; they need only reasonable suspicion to make a stop. In a high-crime area, any suspicious behaviour constitutes reasonable suspicion to make a stop. If the person does not respond to the stop, that automatically triggers probable cause to make an arrest and use force if warranted. Also, it's unlikely that the dog was sent at the perp if the perp was not doing anything. If the perp wasn't stopping or was reaching for his pocket--that's enough to send the dog on him (though I do agree that I don't like using animals in dangerous situations; nevertheless, it's one of the main points of even having police dogs).
I think the cops' story rings truer just on its face. Police dogs don't just attack people; and cops don't just sic dogs on people for the hell of it. I believe the guy had a gun in plain view, the cops told the dog to disarm, and the creep killed the dog.
The reason why police dogs are considered police officers in most states is pretty obvious. You cannot absolve yourself of resisting arrest by claiming that the police dog was intimidating you. It's not like the dogs are on patrol by themselves--they are accompanied by human officers. If a cop tells you to lie down or put your hands in the air, and you don't the dog is just an extension of the human police officer and must be accorded the same level of deference. If police dogs were not treated as police officers under the law, it would expose the human officers using such dogs to enormous risk.
If you have the gun in your hand under your shirt, how do you “raise your empty hands” without pulling it out or dropping a loaded revolver?!?
You are sure that none of your fellow residents would hold out for not guilty just because it was a police dog? You have more faith in the average juror than I do. I seriously would expect a hung juror in most cases where a K9 is killed. I am also still looking for a conviction under "killing a K( is the same as killing an officer" laws.
More details this morning from the Trib.
Parents of deceased say some witnesses say he had no gun...who shot the dog?
Slug recovered from dog matches gun stolen in 2006 burglary.
Deceased had lengthy criminal record for one so young.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_566397.html
Stop wasting your time because I do not care if you live or die....much less care about you opinion.
We know that. I, on the other hand, do care if you die.
We know that. I, on the other hand, do care if you die.
Hope you did because AFTER a dog has exhibited such behavior the public sympathy for the animal "adjusts".
That's precisely why the dead guy's family are going to win the Pittsburgh lottery!
Hope you did because AFTER a dog has exhibited such behavior the public sympathy for the animal "adjusts".
That's precisely why the dead guy's family are going to win the Pittsburgh lottery!
But it's not fantasy. Neither is our high execution rate, and long prison sentences.
Forgot to add, you go to jail in Virginia, you go to jail for the whole term. There's no judicial discretion. There's no parole. There's only jail time.
The result is the sort of shooting event described in this case does not happen.
As far as a dog "protecting its own", fresh meat will take care of that problem.
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