bulbul Posted October 13, 2013 Posted October 13, 2013 Police officers in Los Angeles have long faced accusations of institutional racism, but now it appears their dogs may be unjustly discriminatory, too. A new report focusing on the Canine Special Detail of the LA Sherriff's Department (LASD) has uncovered a vast increase in the number of minority individuals bitten by police dogs since 2004. And in the first six months of this year, every single victim of a bite by a LASD dog was African-American or Latino.The data was published in a new report by the Police Assessment Resource Centre (Parc), a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization, devoted to "advancing effective and accountable policing". According to the Parc records, the Latinos bitten by LASD canines went up 30% between 2004 and 2012, from 30 to 39 bites. African-Americans bitten increased by 33% over the same period. Meanwhile, police dog bites caused injuries at a much higher rate than alternative deterrents such as batons, tear gas and even guns. "Large swathes of LASD's jurisdiction, encompassing generally affluent areas with smaller minority populations, had few [canine] deployments or bites," the Parc report states. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Racist-LA-police-dogs-bite-only-minorities/articleshow/24070234.cms ...............Communal dogs :banghead:
velu Posted October 15, 2013 Posted October 15, 2013 police dogs wont bite without its masters instruction
DomainK Posted October 15, 2013 Posted October 15, 2013 ^ Precisely. Seems LA cops set their dogs upon certain chosen skin colors.
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