“We don’t have any way of taking care of a dog,“ an officer told the dog’s owner, Bryan Pennington.

    • Doug HollandOP
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      4610 months ago

      Next best thing to killing people, and lots less paperwork.

    • @Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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      4010 months ago

      It’s almost like there’s significant overlap between people who become cops and the psych profile of a serial killer.

      • @BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
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        1710 months ago

        I believe the top three jobs for psychopaths are surgeons, lawyers, and cops. Don’t remember the order but there have been a few lists made.

        • Maeve
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          710 months ago

          You know, until i read that I would’ve guessed C suite personnel. Brb looking something up.

            • Maeve
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              310 months ago

              Or at least went to law school. Which is sad. I always wanted to go for a jd to actually defend innocent accused.

        • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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          310 months ago

          The first two are for psychopaths who are intelligent enough to realise that going along with society will result in the best outcome, enlightened self interest. The ones who become cops and/or murderers are the failures.

    • Flying Squid
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      1810 months ago

      Sort of makes you think that all cops might be bastards, doesn’t it?

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    7110 months ago

    If the only tool you know is a gun, every problem looks like a target.

    Dogs, suspected shoplifters, black people in a white neighborhood…

    • RandomStickman
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      6810 months ago

      It would literally be easier to just tell the person to look for a shelter. They’re going out of their way to be heartless monsters.

      • flipht
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        2010 months ago

        They should have to carry malpractice insurance

        • Final Remix
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          510 months ago

          The behemoth that is their “Union” would never allow it. And they’ve got a fuckin’ cop-like stranglehold on things.

    • hamid
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      510 months ago

      There was probably no donut shop on the way

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      210 months ago

      It’s generally frowned upon to kill it at a shelter. Better to just murder it, leave it in a field somewhere and get back to drinking on the clock

  • @Clbull@lemmy.world
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    5710 months ago

    “We don’t have any way of taking care of a dog,“ an officer told the dog’s owner, Bryan Pennington.

    You couldn’t just take it to a local dog pound? And isn’t there such a thing as microchipping, which allows a dog to be scanned and their owners identified?

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      2810 months ago

      He didn’t think of this excuse until afterward when he was called into question. When asked to pick up the dog his only thought was “Great! Something I can get away with killing!”

    • @Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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      1410 months ago

      That is such a bullshit statement. My sister’s dog ran off at state park. We searched for hours and asked around before finally heading to the rangers station to see if they had heard anything. Turns out, the rangers had found her and they and the maintenence guys spent all day hanging out with her and driving her around in the various vehicles. The ranger we spoke to said they were going to take her to the shelter if we hadn’t come before the park shit down. They had “nothing to take care of a dog” but managed to handle it without shooting anything.

    • @some_guy
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      1410 months ago

      That takes more time and effort than a bullet.

      I will never call cops for a lost animal. What a shitty outcome.

      • @NightAuthor@lemmy.world
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        2010 months ago

        Never call cops unless you want someone dead, and don’t mind if it’s yourself. And that goes 10x for PoC

  • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙
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    4810 months ago

    The police are far from anyone’s friend.

    Cops kill dogs when they enter houses, it’s one of the very first things they do.

    Cops just love to kill small harmless animals! Cops just love to kill!

  • Alien Nathan Edward
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    4310 months ago

    The cops resent it when their job involves anything but murder. Don’t call the cops unless you’re prepared for something or someone to die.

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      2610 months ago

      When I first bought my school bus I needed to have a policeman come out and do a VIN verification so I could get it registered, so I called the local (Philadelphia) police department. When I asked for an officer to do this, the dispatcher said “nah”. I said “nah?” and he said “yeah, nah” and hung up on me.

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        2310 months ago

        When someone broke the window on my car I needed a police report for the insurance. They wouldn’t cover it otherwise. When the cop showed up he yelled at me for having a broken window and told me he wasn’t gonna do the report unless I gave him permission to search the car for drugs. I gave him permission, but filmed the search. He found nothing and wrote the report.

    • Final Remix
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      10 months ago

      They probably “trained” with the Killology series by the aptly named shitstain, Dave Grossman.

  • kitonthenet
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    3710 months ago

    The dog was no angel! Let’s hear the officer’s side of the story too /s

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    I don’t believe in hell. But there are days when I hope with all my being that I’m wrong.

    May they reap what they’ve sown theeefold. With harm to none but them personally, so mote it be.

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      410 months ago

      it’s no real comfort but sometimes it helps me to understand that the internal life of someone who would kill a dog for convenience is almost certainly already a hell.

  • @phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2110 months ago

    Again, this is what happens if you don’t give adequate training to police officers nor select on more intelligent individuals for the job. If you hire a bunch of trigger happy gun nuts, this is what you get. Don’t be surprised, this is an obvious outcome.

    It’s also relatively easy to solve. Double investments in police. Sell all the crazy military equipment they have and don’t need. Actually, don’t sell it, destroy and recycle it. Use that money to then give they a minimum of 4 years of training before they go out on the streets. Teach them de-escalation techniques. Teach them how to make the world better, to protect and serve

    • TWeaK
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      510 months ago

      When dogs are better trained and more intelligent than police officers.

    • Sentient Loom
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      010 months ago

      Neither investment nor training will change this.

      Prison time for cops. Scare them away from doing murders.

      • @phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        010 months ago

        Training and pushing cultural changes EILL change this. And yes, officers that break the law should go to jail, and that too with make change. But you can’t expect untrained people to behave correctly and make correct decisions. Of court they won’t because they don’t know how.

        • Sentient Loom
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          210 months ago

          Yes but nobody needs training to not murder a dog. Only punishment will work with these kinds of psychopaths. They didn’t kill the dog because they lacked training. They killed the dog because they enjoy murder.

          • @phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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            110 months ago

            Mmm, assuming that not all police officers are sadistic asshats, I imagine many of them just being scared and only remember being told to shoot first, ask questions later. Training and changing the culture within police organizations will do a lot there. Also punishment

            • Sentient Loom
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              110 months ago

              These particular officers are the only ones who would be punished for killing the dog. Also, they weren’t under attack. They just decided they’d rather kill the dog than to not kill the dog.

            • Doug HollandOP
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              010 months ago

              Mmm, assuming that not all police officers are sadistic asshats

              Serious question: Why would you assume that?

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      2010 months ago

      Actually, Missouri is a native American word meaning “This place sucks”

      Incidentally, “Mississippi” is Iroquois for “most racist and generally awful state”

        • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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          310 months ago

          True! In fact, their unofficial state motto is “Thank God for Mississippi (making Alabama look less awful in comparison)!”

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        310 months ago

        What a lot of people don’t know is that a la bama in spanish means “to the borders as quickly as possible even fucking Arkansas is an improvement on this shithole”

      • Liz
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        310 months ago

        I heard Florida was Spanish for “we’re sorry, no really, sorry. So sorry. We messed up pretty bad. It’s your problem now, we’re just so done with this shit.”

      • Obinice
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        -1010 months ago

        This is false on both counts.

        The word “Missouri” often has been construed to mean “muddy water” but the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology has stated it means “town of the large canoes,” and authorities have said the Indian syllables from which the word comes mean “wooden canoe people” or “he of the big canoe.”

        Mississippi, meaning “great river” or “gathering-in of all the waters,” sometimes referred to as the “father of waters,”.