LA Police Dogs Are Racists

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/racist-la-police-dogs-only-bite-latinos-and-africanamericans-8874913.html

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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 organisation, devoted to “advancing effective and accountable policing”.

According to Parc records, the number of Latino individuals bitten by LASD canines went up 30 per cent between 2004 and 2012, from 30 to 39 bites. The number of African-Americans bitten increased by 33 per cent 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.

“Crime rates are lower in these areas, but the stark disparity leads us to wonder why canine deployments seem to occur disproportionately in less affluent areas with larger minority populations.” During the period covered in the report, the largely black or Latino areas of Century, City of Industry, Compton, Lakewood and South LA/Lennox suffered more dog bites than all of LASD’s other 21 districts combined.

A recent investigation by the US Department of Justice also found that in areas policed by the LASD, “African Americans, and to a lesser extent Latinos, are more likely to be stopped and/or searched than whites, even when controlling for factors other than race, such as crime rates.”

The authors of the Parc report recommended that the LASD work on improving its canine-deployment policies, and keep track of the enforcement activities of individual dogs and their handlers. In 2004, a Pennsylvania police dog named Dolpho was suspended from duty, after the German Shepherd displayed a propensity for biting black children.

During the 1980s, some Los Angeles police officers would allegedly refer to black youths as “dog biscuits”.

According to ThinkProgress, Bruce Chase, the officer in charge of the LASD canine unit, said his department intends to reduce the ratio of bites to arrests, a measurement used to gauge the effectiveness of the unit.

This is outrageous. I demand these dogs begin racial sensitivity training immediately.

Someone call Al and Jesse. Someone call the lawyers, I'm sensing a huge payday, here.
Where are their owners?

[Bignugget 0]

No no....

You are confused.

The dog is the tool used by the racist cops.

Just like the gun is the tool used by crazy ass right-wing nutbags to slaughter school kids.

[Gravitymaster 0]

We shoot liberal, too.

[billvon 2,989]

Your one warning. No threats against other posters.

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billvon

Your one warning. No threats against other posters.

For the record, that was not meant as a threat. It was meant to be just as inane as the post I was responding to. Next time I'll put a smiley next to it.

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Bignugget

No no....

You are confused.

The dog is the tool used by the racist cops.

Just like the gun is the tool used by crazy ass right-wing nutbags to slaughter school kids.

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1. Ft Hood~~~ Registered Democrat ~ Muslim

2. Columbine ~~~ Too young to vote; both families were registered Democrats and progressive liberals.

3. Virginia Tech ~~~ Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff ~ Registered Democrat

4. Colorado Theater ~~~ Registered Democrat; staff worker on the Obama campaign;
Occupy Wall Street participant; & progressive liberal.

5. Connecticut School Shooter- ~~~ Registered Democrat; hated Christians.

Thank you come again!

[Bignugget 0]

regulator

***No no....

You are confused.

The dog is the tool used by the racist cops.

Just like the gun is the tool used by crazy ass right-wing nutbags to slaughter school kids.

------------------------------------------------------
1. Ft Hood~~~ Registered Democrat ~ Muslim

2. Columbine ~~~ Too young to vote; both families were registered Democrats and progressive liberals.

3. Virginia Tech ~~~ Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff ~ Registered Democrat

4. Colorado Theater ~~~ Registered Democrat; staff worker on the Obama campaign;
Occupy Wall Street participant; & progressive liberal.

5. Connecticut School Shooter- ~~~ Registered Democrat; hated Christians.

Thank you come again!


God you need to get out from under that rock.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-idea-that-recent-mass-shooters-are-mostly-registered-democrats-is-a-myth

Feel free to not respond after being shown to be blatantly wrong.

That is how you end most of your discussions with me.

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And you need to quit smoking rocks.

That shits bad for your health.

[funjumper101 15]

regulator

***No no....

You are confused.

The dog is the tool used by the racist cops.

Just like the gun is the tool used by crazy ass right-wing nutbags to slaughter school kids.

------------------------------------------------------
1. Ft Hood~~~ Registered Democrat ~ Muslim

2. Columbine ~~~ Too young to vote; both families were registered Democrats and progressive liberals.

3. Virginia Tech ~~~ Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff ~ Registered Democrat

4. Colorado Theater ~~~ Registered Democrat; staff worker on the Obama campaign;
Occupy Wall Street participant; & progressive liberal.

5. Connecticut School Shooter- ~~~ Registered Democrat; hated Christians.

Thank you come again!

Right Wing Conservatard parroting absolutely FALSE information that has been proven to be inaccurate.

Next thing you know, the RWC pinheads here will be coming up with other sources that parroted the same false information and try to present that false info as fact.

See the FACTUAL posting that links to a complete debunking of the conservatard fantasy presented here.

Repeating lies and falsehoods over and over does not make them true, unless you are a conservatard. Then ANYTHING is possible, when it comes to believing bullshit that matches up with the terrified world view that 'tards have. RWCs are the nitwits who are willing to believe any bullshit that comes from their corporate owned leaders. Facts are of no importance. Beliefs are of the utmost importance, even when they can be shown to be based on FICTION.

One has to be REALLY STUPID to believe things that are patently ridiculous. A former Professor of Constitutional law is a rabid socialist? One has to be especially ignorant to believe that crap.

Joseph Goebbels is very proud of the application of his propaganda techniques as performed by Roger Ailes and Faux Spews.

[Bignugget 0]

He can't help it.

In a perfect world he would go and do some research, see how much he has been lied to and fooled, and open his eyes.

In reality he will be the same as he always has been, small-minded and sad.

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While we're on the subject of racism.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/10/14-2

Appalling video of two Philadelphia thugs/cops - "Honor, Service, Integrity" - stopping two black guys on the street, evidently for saying "hi" to someone, and proceeding to harass, threaten, terrorize, belittle, insult and cuss them out because, says officer Philip Nace, "All you do is weaken the fucking country.”

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Bignugget

He can't help it.

In a perfect world he would go and do some research, see how much he has been lied to and fooled, and open his eyes.

In reality he will be the same as he always has been, small-minded and sad.

Aw look... more personal attacks.