• imPastaSyndrome
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    5 months ago

    Surely the cop responsible will be jailed for years for ‘killing a ‘cop’’ right?

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Police dogs are (normally) one rank higher than their handlers. This means abuse or mistreatment is tantamount to harming a superior. On the low end he probably won’t be allowed to be a K9 handler anymore, and might lose his job at this location. On the high end you could go all the way up to facing actual charges for neglect/abuse/ death of an animal he was charged with protecting. K9 dogs take forever to train and trainers time is expensive and laborious - this is one of those moments and officer more than likely won’t walk away Scott free since he directly hurt his employer. Don’t bite the hand that feeds type deal.

      • Etterra@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        That figures. Leave it to the fucking police to treat killing your own cop dog as a significantly more serious offense than killing an unarmed civilian.

    • Vaggumon
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      5 months ago

      My wife told me about this story yesterday and I said damn near the same thing.

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    5 months ago

    This situation causes me to suffer a moral dilemma: all dogs are good boys, but all cops are bastards.

    • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      These dogs are taken as pups and forced into this life style. They’re prisoners of the system. They may technically be cops but they can’t really say no.

    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Easy, dogs aren’t cops. You can tell because they actually fit their uniform, pass fitness tests and don’t shoot innocents.

    • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      There should be no police dogs. It’s been proven that they will bark at nothing because they think it makes their handler happy.