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    Police dogs bite 13 people a week as victims say ‘reckless’ officers behind rise
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    Police dogs bite 13 people a week as victims say ‘reckless’ officers behind rise

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    1. sk3Ez0 on

      So we should obviously ban police dogs then, right? Just like we did to the XL Bully’s.

    2. Ok_One9519 on

      Well, we have a nation where strange people have an obsession with dogs. Dirty animals that slobber, bark, shed, piss and shit everywhere. Disgusting. Now, there is a place for police dogs, unlike the XL bullies and other dogs shitting and pissing all over the place. But the officers should be charged if their nasty dogs go to attack someone. How comes people can walk around with these animals yet I can’t even carry a can of pepper spray?

    3. EvilTaffyapple on

      Pretty sure the easy answer to this is to not get in to a position where the police are chasing you with a dog, no?

    4. sleepytoday on

      If I’m understanding this right, the total number of times that dogs have been deployed went up 50%, and so the number of bites also went up 50%.

      That would indicate that the handlers are just as cautious/reckless as usual, but their superiors are using them more often.

    6. r3xomega on

      Could it be because the quality of the training for both the dog and handler has gone down due to budget cuts?

    7. pleasantstusk on

      A dog seems like a great tool for the police to use to me – we can’t keep removing their tools.

    8. pleasantstusk on

      A dog seems like a great tool for the police to use to me – we can’t keep removing their tools.

    9. CertainPlatypus9108 on

      i imagine they were committing violent offenses rather than children on a park

    10. sepulchralnihilist on

      No more dogs. Bad for climate change. Bad for everything. People should find company in their communities, and if they don’t have a community then that’s another reason to not tie down people at home to their dogs.

    11. Curious_Fok on

      >At least **653 bites** were recorded … **compared with 414** in 2018, the first year the Home Office started recording statistics around the use of police dogs.

      >The total number of incidents where dogs were deployed has also increased dramatically, **from 1,920 in 2018 to 3,023** in 2023

      This is a none story. 50% more dog bits because they were deployed 50% more often.

    12. SwooshSwooshJedi on

      Compare the language around people defending cops – who have all the training to not be violent – to a few absolute fools with XL bullies. Public love a fringe problem without ever looking at our institutions

    13. HeyGeno20 on

      Weird.

      I’ve never been bitten by a police dog. And I’m fucking old.

      I wonder why that is ?

    14. Massive-Pin-3655 on

      If that’s across the country, then that number seems disappointingly low.

      Dog handlers are well trained, professional and very accountable for what their dogs do.

      Headline should read “13 tw#ts f@cked about this week and found out”.