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You're not sure that leaving a dog in a hot car until he dies involves negligence?
They have air conditioners, so if following procedure leaving in the car with it running, it breaks down and the alarm fails, then yes, that would not be negligence. Maybe an issue with the procedure, but not negligence.
I for one do not think they should be left in a car for any extended amount of time unsupervised, at least a 30 minute check should be mandatory
I googled it, but I only came up with one case, in Long Beach.
But also you have to take into account accident vs on purpose. There would be a different sentence for the car incident than a shooting incident. One is murder, the other is manslaughter...Or dogslaughter.
....B!t<#slaughter?
I did a search on Bing and found cases in Florida, Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Illinois. I was surprised that it happens that frequently. K9 cops tend to be very attached to their dogs.
I did a search on Bing and found cases in Florida, Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Illinois. I was surprised that it happens that frequently. K9 cops tend to be very attached to their dogs.
And you would expect cops to know better, considering they get called for this very type of incident, whether it be animals, or children. That is surprising.
A police dog is a dog and is not an officer and shouldn't be treated as such is my point. A dog is not a person. As I noted there is something wrong with lot of people today in this country who place more value on dog's lives versus human lives. I've always thought PETA people were/are crazy and IMO you all thinking this dog's death is worth 35 years makes you just as loony as the PETA folk.
PETA has nothing to do with it. Unless you somehow think that police departments are PETA members.
"Thousands of dogs are working on any given day and hundreds of police dogs have even given their lives protecting. These animals are trained to be part of the police force and considered full-fledged police officers."
"Today, in many countries, a K-9 police dog is considered an official police officer with many duties and responsibilities on their hands. It means these dogs must be and are treated just as a human police officer would, protected under the law the same way. Mistreating a K-9 unit dog is the same thing as mistreating an law enforcement officer (with perpetrator facing fines and long-term jail time)."
"Barney was a police officer, a beloved pet, a hard worker, a friend.
The 11-year-old black Labrador mix was treated as such Thursday when K-9 officers from Pierce County escorted his remains from a funeral home in University Place to the Tacoma police headquarters at 3701 S. Pine St. for a memorial service."
Yes we know. But we also know that sentencing isn’t always fair...
Define fair. Everyone has a different idea on what fair means. Now if it were the same judge that gave a light sentence to the idiot in the wrong apartment, I too would wonder what was up with that. In this case different judge. Now we could go with standard sentence, no range, no mitigating factors. I would say that would not be fair.
For example man shoots another man while arguing if Trump is as dumb as he sounds or if he is just pretending to be that dumb. Well there isn't not a lot of mitigating circumstance there.
Man shoots another man after being threatened and beaten several times by the dead guy. In fact the dead guy was shot while destroying the shooters sole source of transportation for his work. There are real mitigating circumstances there that should be considered.
The police dog is doing a public service. Unlike his handler he is only corrupted by bribes of treats. It can have no evil in its heart. The person who shot it should be given a choice . Endure an attack by other police dogs and a reduced sentence or accept the 45 years.
Unless you can tell me what the mitigating factors were in shooting a dog acting in the line of duty. I feel the same with shooting a human cop while acting in the line of duty. It should be a multiplier when it comes to deciding the punishment.
Bad cops? I have a very real problem with bad cops. Their sentences should be doubled and no special treatment. General population for them. That might help persuade other cops to keep it clean.
So a police officer can walk into your apartment, kill you, claim that he or she thought they were in their own apartment and receive 10 years. But if you shoot a police dog...
Wonder how many years he received for the unrelated crimes because the way the article reads...
Conservatives will tell you animals have no rights. This is because animals do not know right from wrong.
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