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Originally Posted by lynzy420  I'm in the middle of reading this report, thank you for sharing it. I see that it is from 2011, do you know if anything was "done" with the information? such as legislation, training etc? What precipitated the report being done? |
This may answer your last question.
The report followed a 2010 position paper by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which concluded that "most instances of police shooting dogs are avoidable" and urged departments to train officers to better understand dog behavior and to use the minimum force necessary to deal with it.
I don't know if anything is being done. May be too soon to tell. There are still a lot of these instances occurring, so the problem isn't 'fixed' yet.
The answer has to be in training, not legislation. I can think of no way to construct a law specific to LEOs. It may take a few successful lawsuits to prompt change. Hopefully, we'll see less and less of this happening in the future.