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jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前

Blind and deaf dog Teddy got lost in a neighbor’s yard. Police called to help him shot him dead

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Blind and deaf dog Teddy got lost in a neighbor’s yard. Police called to help him shot him dead

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jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前
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Missouri authorities face backlash after officer shoots blind and deaf dog dead
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The Sturgeon Police Department was described as a ‘joke’, ‘disgusting and disappointing’ after attempting to justify the officer’s actions

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15781410

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    I’d think it was a joke that cops just show up and shoot your dog if you call them. But my best friend in highschool called the cops on his uncle when he was on drugs and became violent. First thing they did after they showed up? I shit you not, they shot his dog. It lost a leg, but thankfully didn’t die.

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      Before reddit went to shit there was a sub called “puppycide” dedicated to all the dogs the police were killing. It was staggering the amount of new content that sub got on a regular basis. It’s not just a meme. Cops shoot a lot of dogs. Like every day.

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        Cops kill 3-4 people per day. Dogs are at least double that.

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          https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/jun/16/doj-police-shooting-family-dogs-has-become-epidemic/

          The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.

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            Holy shit! I didn’t realize it was that many!

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        I wonder if police dogs feel anything or change their behavior if they see the police shoot other dogs in front of them?

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          Do cops change their behavior when another cop shoots someone in front of them?

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            Yeah but dogs are actually capable of empathy

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    The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.

    99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

    When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

    When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

    When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

    Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

    The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

    All this is a path to a police state.

    In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

    Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

    That’s the solution.

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• Police lie under oath, a lot

• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak

• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street

• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States

• So you wanna be a cop?

• When the police knock on your door

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