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You'd think the downside would be living with the knowledge you killed someone's beloved pet. Cops are people too.

snakeanus 9y ago
This seems like a small price to pay.
xkcd-sucks 9y ago
>Cops are people too The motivation to go home unharmed every night and retire with a pension probably trumps abstract moral considerations
- valuearb 9y ago
  In this case his motivation was to avoid a few splinters jumping back over the fence.
- ourmandave 9y ago
  I was thinking of a video where the SWAT guys got the wrong apartment. It's from a team-member's lapel cam. Near the end of it, they have the whole family (mom, dad, and two little kids) in the living room while they're searching the place. The dad is zip-tied, face down on the floor and starts crying out loud when he finds out they shot the family dog. You'd have to be pretty hard core not to have some regret.
  - Simon_says 9y ago
    I don't know the specific video you're talking about, but these kinds of raids point to an overarching problem with the police in the US, and that's the need for aggressive raids of homes, usually of the "no-knock" variety. The reason why police have the need to "no-knock" raid homes is that the crime is drug possession, and the drugs could be flushed or disposed of if there were a lengthy negotiation process to safely get everyone out of the house. Every dog killed in these raids is collateral damage from our idiotic war on drugs.
    - DrScump 9y ago
      Courts have generally held that no-knock warrants are legal only in cases where critical evidence is at risk of immediate destruction if police announce normally (e.g. drugs down a toilet, bookies writing on flashpaper).
      - Simon_says 9y ago
        Exactly my point. (And it's overwhelmingly drugs, not bookies.) It's a bad trade off as a society for us to make police work more dangerous for the public and the officers in order to criminalize possession of certain plants.
- mnm1 9y ago
  When exactly did this become the entirety of a cop's job description?
xxSparkleSxx 9y ago
Lots of people in all sorts of awful companies/government positions normalize what they contribute to every day. And they go home and sleep fine. I'm sure there are dozens of people reading and agreeing with your comment right now and many go to work everyday for companies that have a negative effect on society. Yet, they won't see in that way. They have a job and it's all about "looking out for number one."
StavrosK 9y ago
It seems to me there's quite a bit of selection bias there. The cops killing pets are the ones who don't care if they kill a pet. The whole point is that the system needs to be set up in such a way that even the ones who'd kill a dog for nothing don't get to.

This seems like a small price to pay.

>Cops are people too The motivation to go home unharmed every night and retire with a pension probably trumps abstract moral considerations

valuearb 9y ago
In this case his motivation was to avoid a few splinters jumping back over the fence.
ourmandave 9y ago
I was thinking of a video where the SWAT guys got the wrong apartment. It's from a team-member's lapel cam. Near the end of it, they have the whole family (mom, dad, and two little kids) in the living room while they're searching the place. The dad is zip-tied, face down on the floor and starts crying out loud when he finds out they shot the family dog. You'd have to be pretty hard core not to have some regret.
- Simon_says 9y ago
  I don't know the specific video you're talking about, but these kinds of raids point to an overarching problem with the police in the US, and that's the need for aggressive raids of homes, usually of the "no-knock" variety. The reason why police have the need to "no-knock" raid homes is that the crime is drug possession, and the drugs could be flushed or disposed of if there were a lengthy negotiation process to safely get everyone out of the house. Every dog killed in these raids is collateral damage from our idiotic war on drugs.
  - DrScump 9y ago
    Courts have generally held that no-knock warrants are legal only in cases where critical evidence is at risk of immediate destruction if police announce normally (e.g. drugs down a toilet, bookies writing on flashpaper).
    - Simon_says 9y ago
      Exactly my point. (And it's overwhelmingly drugs, not bookies.) It's a bad trade off as a society for us to make police work more dangerous for the public and the officers in order to criminalize possession of certain plants.
mnm1 9y ago
When exactly did this become the entirety of a cop's job description?

xxSparkleSxx 9y ago

Lots of people in all sorts of awful companies/government positions normalize what they contribute to every day. And they go home and sleep fine. I'm sure there are dozens of people reading and agreeing with your comment right now and many go to work everyday for companies that have a negative effect on society. Yet, they won't see in that way. They have a job and it's all about "looking out for number one."

StavrosK 9y ago

It seems to me there's quite a bit of selection bias there. The cops killing pets are the ones who don't care if they kill a pet. The whole point is that the system needs to be set up in such a way that even the ones who'd kill a dog for nothing don't get to.