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New Bill Would Let Cops Enter Your Home without Warrant and Kill Your Dog

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In light of recent events, it’s become apparent that the public’s opinion of law enforcement is rapidly falling apart. Technology is partly to blame for giving the average citizen the ability to film police encounters at a moments notice, and post these videos on the internet for the world to see. There’s always been bad cops, but now their antics are being exposed now more than ever.

Of course, that’s not even the half of it. The police wouldn’t get any bad exposure if they weren’t caught doing terrible things. A cursory look through a Facebook group like Copblock will give you page after page of cops being stupid, trigger happy, petty, and negligent (and those are just the links gathered from the last 24 hours).

But I don’t think anything has sullied the reputation of American law enforcement more than their propensity for killing dogs. For most dog owners, their pets are members of the family. They treat them like their children. To walk onto someone’s property and shoot their dog, is like shooting their kid. And yet these cases are rarely, if ever, brought to court. It’s hard enough to convict a cop for murder. Reprimanding them for killing a dog would be laughable, if it weren’t so despicable.

A recent bill being proposed in Mississipi may make it even more difficult to hold the police accountable for these crimes. Specifically, if that dog is a pit bull. If this legislation passes, then anyone in the State of Mississipi who owns a pit bull may have their homes searched by the police without a warrant.

Dubbed, the Mississippi Regulation of Dangerous Dogs Act, it also grants police permission to kill your dog if certain criteria are met. If the dog is not “under proper restraint when on the premises of its owner,” isn’t wearing any vaccination tags, and if the police have failed to peacefully subdue the dog, then they would have every right to shoot.

I think the first category is the most egregious. What exactly is their definition of “proper restraint?” And more importantly, what does this mean for dog owners who don’t keep their pets on a leash in their backyard? I mean, how many of you reading this are dog owners, who keep their dogs kenneled or leashed at all times? I’m sure some folks do, but unless your dog has a reputation for being violent or escaping, then doing so sounds kind of cruel. Leashes are for going on walks and kennels are for going to the vet or the dog park. They shouldn’t be necessary on your own property.

They’re basically saying that if you own a certain kind of dog, they have every right to enter your property, which practically guarantees that the police will have an encounter with your dog. And since most dog owners don’t keep their pets restrained at all times, it practically guarantees that your dog will be killed by the police. This bill should be called “The Mississipi Kill All Pit Bulls Act”, but obviously that wouldn’t go over to well with the public. So they’re hiding their intentions behind a facade of safety and benevolence.

And don’t get me started on the whole pit bull debate. I don’t believe for a second that a certain breed of dog is more prone to killing people than another breed. I’m sure there are certain breeds that are easier to train for that (like, I don’t know, maybe the German Sheperds the police use), but pit bulls don’t just attack people for no reason (at least no more than any other dog). My brother has owned a pit bull for about 5 years, and that dog has never attacked anyone. So to me, saying a domesticated dog breed is more likely to attack someone, is like saying Asians are good at math, or Africans or inferior.

When this flawed logic is applied to humans, we rightfully call it racism. When it’s applied to dogs, we start treating each breed like they’re separate species. We forget that all domesticated dogs are from the same species (Canis lupus familiaris), and their differences are marginal at best.

Granted, each breed has some slightly different genes, which makes them better suited for certain tasks, but we have the same thing with humans. Like people from Nepal who can live with less oxygen, or how Europeans are better at digesting dairy than Asians or Africans. But no sane person believes that certain human races are more prone to violence because of their genetics. This whole debate on the aggression of pit bulls is completely asinine.

So what we have here is a piece of legislation that is designed to violate the rights of law abiding citizens, gives police permission to kill their dogs without provocation, and is based on an argument that is more akin to an urban myth.

In my mind, this reveals the lynchpin of police state’s strategy to take away our rights. When they fail to take away our collective rights in one fell swoop, they will try to widdle them away by criminalizing every community, every opinion, and every activity, one at a time, until they’ve captured us all. Someday everyone will be a criminal, if they aren’t already.

And when that day comes, they’ll be at liberty to pick and choose who goes to jail, and who gets to enjoy the illusion of freedom and privacy. Welcome to the new America.

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Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshua’s reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshua’s website is Strange Danger .


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    • Haystack_Needle

      Long time animal services officer here.

      Specific breed legislation is bunk. But with that being said, anyone who thinks certian dogs don’t have breed specific tendencies, and that they are all created equal have their head in the sand. Usually the same folk who said “well, my cousin had a pit bull and it was good so (infering) they all must be, and it must always come back to the owner. And you know what 95% of the time it is the owner putting thier pet in a position to fail aggressive or not.

      Certian breeds have certian tendancies. Let’s take the pit bull. Breed for a long time to fight other dogs (small animals). Now, usually pits are pretty good with adults across the board if socialized well. There is also the fact that in illegal dog fighting the opponent often washes or handles the other dog to make sure no cheating is occuring. The dog must have a temperment to allow this. Ya know how many times I’ve had pits chase down and injure children and smaller folk, often due to the prey-flight instinct. How many times with no provocation they have hauled off and killed other animals. Now this is not to say that this behavior is limited to the pit bull. There are many breeds IMHO that are much worse than the pit bull. If you tell me a pit got in a fight with a a Malamute or a Jack Russell Terrorist, I’m gonna tell you that likely 9 times out of 10 the other dog started it. There is also the power aspect. If you get bit by an aggressive JRT you will be much less damaged than by a pit. Ever seen someone almost loose their arm? How about 300 stiches on a childs head? No, how bout an elderly lady getting her ankle crushed on a single bite? The examples go on and on. I deal with more aggressive pit bull issues than any other dog by a county mile.

      There is also the fact that many backyard breeders of all types have lowered the breeding standards here resulting in many dogs with poor dispositions and health issues. For example, I would never, ever get a German Shepherd from here. I would go to Canada or Germany.

      If your pursuit of happiness is a pit bull or other with hightened breed issues that is your right. Breed specific legislation infinges upon this, not to mention the sheer outlandishness of the Mississippi law. LEO’s killing dogs is killing their rep in the community. I catch an earful about it often and see how many LEO’s handle the animal issue which is to say, very poor.

    • Loki

      I would shoot them back if they shot my dog.

    • bafa

      They already do this, mostly with impunity.

    • James Smith

      All, part of the communist manifesto, period…. /alternative/2014/08/america-is-under-attack-and-the-american-people-know-it-too-3015792.html The cops that are really mess up in the braid have been to fbi training…. some real serious jackasses.

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