How dare they!!

The cops shot this teen to death because he stole 2 ps3s from another teen...they shot him because he had a controller in his hand. If your playing the PS3 your obviously going to have it's remote in your hand. But that's not all...they shot his dog to death and the dog never attempted to attack them!! Now the case is getting investigated. I Can't Stand Cops!!

And another time the cops stopped a guy on the highway took him out his car put a beating on him arrested him. The dog ran out the car and started barking..not once attacked just barked, they shot the dog to death because it was a pitbull terrier. Then when they got a really good look at the guy they beat the hell out of it turned out it was a mistake! This was an innocent man with a dead dog. He said "My dog never attacked once, How dare they kill him! He was the most friendliest dog I've ever had and my only bestfriend."

I can't stand cases like this! I was in tears!!

Very sad!

Do you have the links??

No It was on the first one was an article my sister showed me and the second one was on the news

It was in the post

My brother-in-law is a cop and I can't believe the stories I hear about how they treat dogs. They will shoot dogs all the time for no good reason. I remember the story he was bragging about when he let someones dog out of their house and it went running down the street. He started laughing about it. It drives my husband and I insane when he starts with the dog stories.

It's just so sad

No , not all cops and not all people . Don't let one rotten apple ruin the barrel . I had read about the second story . That was absolutely uncalled for !

What??? Where are the links and stories?

Funny, I find here that most cops really love dogs and will do anything to help them. I've even heard cops (on the scanner) picking up stray dogs and taking them somewhere safe. You can tell they are having a good time playing with them.

once i was at the beach with Chance and the kids and we had a 5 month old Rottie named Oya with us. a park ranger was walking by and Oya just stood up and the stupid so-and-so went for his gun and said "that's a good way to get shot", right in front of my kids, and he meant it. Oya was on a chain by our tent, didn't growl or anything, cops suck.

about 8 years ago i was walking our 5 year old Rottie, Bear, and saw a cop that lived in the apartment complex we were in, noticed he had some mace in his hand. he looked drunk and was staring at us, made me feel nervous, so i asked him about the mace claiming that i was considering buying some for my wife and wanted to know if it worked. he said "let's see" and sprayed it at us. luckily we were about 4 or 5 feet further away than the mace could go. yeah he harrassed alot of people there.

if you are a cop and you are reading this, you suck.

OMG that is horrible! Now they know why a lot of people aren't so fond of them. Yeah they can do a good job at times but I feel they take their authority over others for granted. How cruel can they be? And wtf?! "That's a good way to get shot", how idiotic can they be! I feel cops should never shoot dogs...I think they should travel with tranquilizers. That's just a disgrace...

Wow! How awfull! I am glad my son is not like that! He loves animals too much! Boy I am pretty sure, he knows I would give him a beating if I heard him doing such stuff!

i can't believe you said such a statement that covers anyone who is a cop. my cousin is a cop he is very fair very understanding to most peoples problems. he has two dogs that he loves a lot and he feels it's important for his daughter to be raised with animals. you have no right to say such a blanket statement like that.

Most people that have problems with cops is because they are living a lifestyle that encourages cops to be in their business. Therefore they don't like them. I hope the people that are bashing on this thread never needs a cop to save their life.
People like you are the reason I am afraid to send my kids to school!!
You should be ashamed of yourself!

I have to agree saying someone should be shot and their families watch it on TV is an absolutly horrible statement to make about anyone.

A friend of my brother's who I grew up with is also a cop. He is fair and actually owns a Rottie and is a nice guy.

Sure a lot of cops are control freaks and have the job because they like to tell people what to do but a lot are caring people who genuinely (sp?) care about other people and yes animals sometimes too. They are people too and like all of us there is a lot of diversity.

I believe a lot of the laws we have are dumb too but I would NEVER EVER say about even my worst enemy that I wish they would get shot in the face. Not to be mean but maybe you should look at getting help if you are that angry?

YOu also have to keep in mind how many people actually train their dogs to specifically attack cops. I would be a little leery of dogs too if I had been attacked by one several times.

However, there is no excuse for any of the stories written on here.

PEOPLE are cruel toward animals, not just cops. I have heard a lot worse stories than someone shooting an innocent dog. If you are involved in rescue you know what I mean. At least the dog was "put out of it's misery" and didnt suffer a horrific death.

No, it doesnt excuse the cops behavior but I would much rather see something bad happen to the people who starve their animals or people who run puppy mills, or people who beat their animals, or children who light cats on fire, exc..

ETA-We also seem to forget that cops are only DOING THEIR JOB. They dont make the laws, they only enforce them. Yeah I have met some real jacka** cops, but I choose to believe that the majority of them are there because they care and they want to HELP people out (get crack addicts into rehab so they can straighten their lives out; jail the rapists, muders; help people recover their stolen property, exc..)

Again I dont believe in every law that this country has quite the opposite, I think a lot of the laws are wrong. But I am not going to hate someone who has nothing to do with putting them in place and spends their days on the streets protecting the public from murderers, rapists, and theifs. Think about what our life woul be like if no one wanted to enforce laws and people could just do whatever they like. It would be complete insanity.

In all my years interacting with cops, nothing good ever came out of it. I try my best to stay as far away from cops as I can.

Ironic thing is that cops are always there when you don't need them and are getting in the way, and are NEVER there when you do need them. I stopped relying on cops long time ago and rely on myself for protection...

I'm sure there are nice cops, its just I've never seen one. No matter how much people will tell you that cops are great, you can only go by your own experiences with them...

A couple of my family's good friends are cops. They are lovely people and I would trust them with my dogs any day.

All the other cops I've met here have fit the stereotype, though (and no, I didn't meet them because I was getting in trouble!) I generally stay away.

Maybe Canadian cops, Saje . . . We've had several cases just like that down here. A couple of them even made the Today show. Even the K9 dogs here aren't trained well - they'll bark at you as they drive by. It happens here all the time - I've seen it and even had them bark at me. Funny thing, though - they'll bark if I'm by myself, but if I have one of the Riot Grrrls or even Bimmer with me, they stay very, very quiet

I had three cops who were hanging out on the corner stop me and ask me about Kharma the other day, and remark that her breed might make outstanding K9s . . . I had to tell them it wouldn't work . . . Filas would wreck the grade curve at the police academy One of 'em thought it was funny; one of them didn't think it was funny and the other one didn't get it

Don't ever say something like that again on this forum. That is a direct attack and won't be tolerated.

That's like saying "all pit bulls suck." Most of us dispise generalizations about dogs. Well, this is no different. There are nice people and not nice people. Those stories are horrible and they were rotten people. And maybe there are more than a few rotten cops out there. But not all cops are like that. It's absolutely ignorant to think they are. There happens to be a cop on another forum I go on and she's the most kind, lovely person....is a reputable breeder and lover of dogs. She's kind and caring of people on that forum and that insults me too....those kinds of remarks.

My Grandfather had a GSD (always GSDs in our family) who was walking through town. This dog smiled when he was being friendly, which he was....a very friendly dog. A cop shot him dead, thinking he was growling. Stupid to not have even a rudimentary knowledge of a dog's body language. So sad. Another bad apple. But that still doesn't warrant generalizations.

I can't believe you said that! I'm really sorry about the experiences that you've had, and those officers definately need to be disciplined. However, to make such a broad statement is hateful and ignorant. My dad, stepmom, two uncles, cousin, aunt, and very good friend (he's on the SWAT team) are all cops. They are all wonderful people who would never hurt a fly. You don't even know them and yet think so low of them. How is that possible? They go to work everyday protecting those who take them for granted, but then when people who think "cops suck" have their car stolen, have their house broken into, etc. who do they call?