I was so upset over the idea that a cop could come into your back yard–ostensibly to protect you from the potential burglars that might be in your house which he has been alerted to via your alarm company–and shoot your dog (I mean, seriously, “I’m here to help, so I killed your dog.”?), that I let myself get distracted from a more important point.
Segments of our population have been saying for years, decades even, that they are being terrorized by the police, that they are afraid of them, and that calling the police is a crap shoot where you don’t know if it’s going to aleviate the situation or add to it.
And the vast majority of us have ignored what they were saying or assumed that they were exaggerating or that they deserved it.
And now?
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I’ll give you another dog-related police “right.” The Supreme Court has ruled that a sniff is not a search. And further, that the police may take drug dogs into any common area on rental property. So, the police can decide to enter the common stairwells of an apartment complex and do a drug dog search. Any “hit” by the dog allows immediete into the home.
Now, toking weed is indeed a crime, and they might actually find a growing operation or a meth lab that way. But my by gone experience with home-huffers of marijuana, myself having been one for five years, is that they pose no danger to the public and should be left alone. It just seems so draconian to have a dog smell some pot smoke and enter a home to find a nickel bag of swag.
And they might shoot fido if they come out to see if I’ve had a heart attack! It worries me that our police forces, both local and national, are forgetting that they work for taxpayers rather than managing us.
Segments of our population have been saying for years, decades even, that they are being terrorized by the police, that they are afraid of them, and that calling the police is a crap shoot where you don’t know if it’s going to aleviate the situation or add to it.
Sometimes that particular segment is called “libertarians” or “gun nuts” or “katherine coble”
Or anyone with any knowledge of domestic violence.