By Bob Walsh
Assemblymembers Ash Kalra (D-SanJose0 and Corey Jackson
(D-Peris) have proposed a law to prohibit the use of police dogs in
arrests, apprehensions and crowd control. It seems that police dogs are
inherently racist.
Their
proposal, AB742, in order to "end a deeply racialized and harmful
practice that has been a mainstay in America's history of racial
violence against Black Americans and people of color."
According
to the DOJ police dog deployment now makes up 12% of all the
use-of-force incidents in the formerly great state of California. Black
and Hispanic people are on the receiving end of about 66% of these
incidents.
The ACLU is listed as a co-sponsor of the bill. That's funny. I didn't know the ACLU had been elected to the CA legislature.
Over the last 30 years the incidents of police K-9 bites in LA county has fallen from about 350 a year to about 35 per year.
Under the proposed law K-9s could still be used for search and rescue and drug detection.
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I've been on a lot of burglary scenes where just the barking and the threat of turning a K-9 loose ended with the criminal giving up without incident. Did they factor these into the statistics?
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