Police officer left K9 in hot car
LINK This makes me furious, heartbreaking story. NC just passed a law this year making it possible for officers to break your cars window for pets left in hot cars. Perhaps SC should do the same. Fro...
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Deb and Ed M wrote:Code2High wrote:
Actually the state AG could probably still weigh in though I don't know what the odds are.
I will say that as suspensions go, that is a very long one. Not saying it is sufficient, but it in personnel terms it is not a slap on the wrist. It is the equivalent of a fine anywhere from six to fifteen thousand dollars. For a lot of people these days it could mean losing a house. Further, it is likely to severely damage his chances for advancement in the future.
Not to mention the death threats he is no doubt getting.
I understand what you are saying - but I agree with others: If *I* killed a bomb-sniffing dog, one of the charges that I would surely be hit with is "killing a police officer". Which is way worse than killing an ordinary person....there's lots of prison time tacked on for doing that.
But now that a police officer has killed another "police officer" through negligence; that "police officer" is now just a dog. Or as Mark puts it (depending on definitions to that jurisdiction) - personal property.
Back in my area about 3 years ago 2 fellow police officers were in a training excersise and playing around with there service weapons, they had forgot to switch out the live rounds back to the dummy rounds. Long story short one officer shot and killed his fellow officer and it was swept under the rug so fast your head would spin. All of this because the officer that pulled the trigger was the son of the county sheriff. Absolutely no charges were ever filed, the officer in question is still a police officer. Someone tell me whats wrong with this picture! It made the news at the time all over the midwest but today it is a memory, all very sad but very true.
