Mike Armstrong Webboard User Reg: 08-06-2005
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In a rare out-of-character moment for me, I initially passed judgment on this K-9 officer, relying only on what was reported in the local news about the death of his dog, without knowing all the details. As reported here during his nolo plea, he provided those details. Was it his fault? Sure, but certainly not entirely.
I have LEO family and friends who work these ungodly hours and schedules in other agencies, too. I know of a number of incidents and accidents that can be attributed to the toll that sleep deprivation, mandatory overtime, shift changes, etc. takes on people. Everyone's working with their fingers crossed, hoping that these working conditions don't cost some civilian, K-9 or officer their life. It happened here, and the amount of the financial loss here should have been spent earlier for the necessary heat alarms.
Laura Dobson Webboard User Reg: 03-16-2008
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I am very upset to hear what happened to the K-9. However, after this happening to a K-9 in my area (Mulberry, Fl) last month, I feel they were a little hard on him. The officer in my area didn't have anything like that happen to her, in fact, they gave her another dog the very next week. I don't feel they should have gone so light on her, but I do feel they were a little harsh on this officer. I would have hoped after the incident down here last month, other departments would take a closer look at their policies and made some changes. I believe this is the third case of a K-9 having heat stroke I have heard this summer alone.
I didn't read the article Mike, but I gather it's a heat related death.......again. (grrrr)
Was it no alarms or a failed alarm this time round?
This is getting sickening. It just can't be that hard or expensive to get a dependable alarm system.
I'm no eletrical whiz, but even I can come up with simple easy systems for alerting for a problem of heat indexes. In my mind k-9 deaths from heat should be so rare as to be a something almost unheard of.
Easy to complain about the death of a dog in situations where hind site is 20:20.
Difficult at times in practice. Modern cars blow hot air when their A/C quits, alarms fail, and they do this more often than their human partners fail.
I won't say that this should have gone without some internal proceedings and discipline based on the behavior of the handler but to go convict him of a crime without intent???
I see many many more local ordinances, and state laws particularly those involving animals move away from the legal standard of intent and it bothers me. Maybe the libertarian in me is coming out, I don't know.
We...meaning society....are becoming quite vindictive and it shows in the rapidly evolving local ordinances that involve lots of areas but one pertaining to this board is animal "rights". I don't want to see a dog die due to stupid behavior but really what should have happened here is a civil or internal process to regain the cost of the dog not a criminal one.
Kevin,
My little rant wasn't intended for the officer envolved in the incident, what ever it was. I don't want to read it (the article) because I still maintain there is no real reason for these kind of deaths (at the rate they seem to occur) with the level of mechanical and eletrical engineering availiable these days.
Unless the officer was found quilty of some obscene dereliction of duty, from what you say, it (criminal prosecution) was probably an over reaction from some do-gooder agency or another.
The death of the K-9 was very unfortunate. But, there will always be human and mechanical errors/failures. There is no way to eliminate all of them. We can reduce them but not completely eliminate them. Nothing is fool-proof.
It sounds as though the guy was worked at both ends (three weeks with only one day off???), who's fault was that? There were no heat alarms on his vehicle, who's fault was that?
I don't think he should be raked over the coals, disciplined yes, crucified, no.
Ah!!! I know!! No PSD = no PSD fatalities.
Edited by Debbie Bruce (09/01/2008 05:42 PM)
Edit reason: human error
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