We need to see the breakdown of what the settlement represented. All police officers need and should be held to the highest standards in their actions and words. I think he should have taken the bite before shooting a dog inside a house, let the owner remove the dog, back outside the house and call for animal control if it was needed. Tax money out the window and he still has a job to do it again, any retraining of him or the department?? waste of money. Good for this couple, bad for all tax payers.
No it is not. The award should be high enough to serve as a deterrent for trigger-happy, thoughtless police elsewhere. As you can see from the practice of continuing cop-on dog shootings, even $600K did not help.
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How much was for entering the home, how much was for the dog? Does seem they had a warrant. What’s with that?
We need to see the breakdown of what the settlement represented. All police officers need and should be held to the highest standards in their actions and words. I think he should have taken the bite before shooting a dog inside a house, let the owner remove the dog, back outside the house and call for animal control if it was needed. Tax money out the window and he still has a job to do it again, any retraining of him or the department?? waste of money. Good for this couple, bad for all tax payers.
Good, I would give’em more. The police state is out of control.
I love dogs, have four of them in my home. But 6 figures for a wrongful shooting is stupid.
No it is not. The award should be high enough to serve as a deterrent for trigger-happy, thoughtless police elsewhere. As you can see from the practice of continuing cop-on dog shootings, even $600K did not help.