Police can shoot dog, mail carrier can't?

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Federal court rules dogs can be shot if they bark,move when officer enters home stemming from controversial Michigan case

I was thinking of Face when I read that. Hey, will USPS, let you blow the brains out of a barking dog you encounter in the course of trying to deliver mail? 

Perhaps the mail carrier is less threatened by dogs? Hard to believe. Don't see why you can't apply same logic. I guess they expect you to run faster than a dog, if necessary.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/court-rules-dogs-shot-bark-police-enter-home-article-1.2926772

Quote: rxwine

I was thinking of Face when I read that. Hey, will USPS, let you blow the brains out of a barking dog you encounter in the course of trying to deliver mail? 

For some reason, certain scumbag cops are getting off on shooting people's dogs. Not a good thing.

Yet the police can sick their canine units on people. Aren't canine units considered members of the force?

I wonder how many years a citizen would get for shooting a police dog charging them?

So pretty much police can kill any dog that's alive?

Quote: petroglyph

Yet the police can sick their canine units on people. Aren't canine units considered members of the force?

I wonder how many years a citizen would get for shooting a police dog charging them?

The dogs the cops shoot are often not threatening at all. It is a tough guy thing.

Quote: rxwine

I was thinking of Face when I read that. Hey, will USPS, let you blow the brains out of a barking dog you encounter in the course of trying to deliver mail? 

Perhaps the mail carrier is less threatened by dogs? Hard to believe. Don't see why you can't apply same logic. I guess they expect you to run faster than a dog, if necessary.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/court-rules-dogs-shot-bark-police-enter-home-article-1.2926772

My only argument is that if attacked, I can afford to dedicate 100% of my attention to it. 5-0 may be under wayyy different circumstances where attention to the dog means trouble.

Regardless, this sounds like it'll be a mess

K9 Lives Matter

*If* extreme measures like swat teams are called for, then those cops cannot tolerate agitated dogs - don't have to be attacking dogs. The distraction would be a good way to get yourself shot.

Having said that, the militarization of police has developed into a problem and they are using swat teams when they aren't called for. It's a case of "if you have them, you need to use them" or somebody will take them away.

And, yes, I think sometimes the dogs are shot for grins.

A notorious case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor's_residence_drug_raid

It seems strange and i don't entirely agree with viewing K9 as "an officer", though I can understand an increased penalty for damage to one if for no other reason than the cost of the extensive training.

But if the precidence is set that dogs=people when it comes to police interactions, then it's a two way street, period.

Quote: odiousgambit

*If* extreme measures like swat teams are called for, then those cops cannot tolerate agitated dogs - don't have to be attacking dogs. The distraction would be a good way to get yourself shot.

Having said that, the militarization of police has developed into a problem and they are using swat teams when they aren't called for. It's a case of "if you have them, you need to use them" or somebody will take them away.

Yes, and thank-you American drug culture. I did not say "war on drugs" because I am not letting things off that easy. But do think about it. What are most of these no-knock and other raids all about? A few are terror suspects. Most are drugs.