Man's 'World Destroyed' After San Diego Cop Kills Burberry The Service Dog

Yep. There's absolutely no justification for this behavior on the part of the officer. Ironically, if you were to shoot and kill a K9 working dog, you'd face up to life in prison. How is this any different? It's yet another illustration of the reality that in the United States, the police are above the law and we can't expect them to be held accountable for their actions. They literally have a "license to kill", and have proven time and time again that they are more than willing to use that license. Also note that the officer consciously stepped back and off of the guy's property so that the discharge of his weapon would occur on public property. This wasn't a "heat of the moment" thing. Was the officer bit? No. The dog was behaving the same way just about any dog with a kind and loving upbringing would behave, by playfully approaching and trying to socialize with a new person. This dog had no fear of people, and thought a couple of new friends were at the door. But it should have feared. It's obvious that we need to train our pets to be absolutely terrified of a policeman's uniform, because that policeman is just as likely as not to have every inclination to kill, to end a life, to take a life. I wouldn't be surprised if dog training schools start (or have already started) training dogs to fear police officers. If and when I get a dog, I'm absolutely going to train him to lay down immediately if he sees a police officer, because absolutely any other action can apparently be construed as aggressive and lead death. There's a grave sickness which has stricken the ranks of our law enforcement agencies, and it reaches from the bottom to the very top. At every level of the force, the same lesson is drilled into officers heads - that they can do just about whatever they want, and that no one can do anything about it. Before I go any further, let me say that I know there are "good cops" out there, and that not all police officers are evil. However, if those "good cops" were good men, then something would have been done about this long before now. Today it's our pets, 7 years ago it was cash for kids, 25 years ago it was Rodney King, 45 years ago it was Kent State. The "war on drugs" is still being waged in every corner of our country to this day, and continues to ruin countless lives and put nonviolent offenders in private for-profit prisons. Minorities are still unfairly targeted at "stop and frisk" encounters on a routine basis. The list goes on and on, and frankly you'd have to be trying extremely hard to convince yourself that nothing's wrong, and that everything is as it should be. The problem isn't these "bad cops" like the shooter in this video. Life is full of terrible, evil people. The real injustice is the continued, systematic enabling of these "bad cops" by their peers and superiors. The "thin blue line" is an atrocity to the decency of our society, and every day this injustice is swept under the rug out of some "code of camaraderie". If you were at work at say a grocery store, and saw a fellow employee stealing food, reporting him would be the "right thing to do", and any of your coworkers who think otherwise would probably be considered "dishonest". But "stealing food" to a grocery store clerk is basically the police equivalent of letting a driver with expired registration off the hook because he happens to be an off-duty cop. Even if this was as far as it went, it would be considered "wrong" to most people. It goes much further than that though. What little evidence that is made available to the public points to the implication that this type of thing goes much further, gets much darker. There seems to be no limit to which an officer will go in order to protect a fellow officer. For whatever the reason may be, something about law enforcement instills an almost unbreakable bond of brotherhood among its members. This isn't just something you see in a movie, it's happening every day across the country, and while sometimes it's a victim-less crime, other times it means someone's life being ruined, if not ended. And the most terrifying part about all of this? The problem isn't going to go away with what we're doing to address it currently. Fixing a problem this deeply ingrained into the psyche of our law enforcement "caste" is going to take something monumental, something revolutionary. We as a society need to take a step back, tally up the costs, and have an honest look at just how much damage is being done to our friends, our neighbors, our parents, our brothers and sisters. We need to recognize just how strikingly many lives are turned to ashes by the very people who were supposed to have been charged with our protection. The thing is, society needs law enforcement. There has to be someone with the authority to give orders and then have the power to enforce those orders. There has to be someone to hunt down the murderers, take the drunk drivers off the road, keep drugs out of the hands of our children. Without law enforcement, civilization as we know it wouldn't be able to function. The freedoms and protections granted to us by society wouldn't be possible without someone to keep things that way. And when you think about it, that's one hell of a tall order. Imagine the almost unimaginable weight put upon the shoulders of these men and women, to be good and just, to be our protectors. And yet, for something so absolutely important, look at how we've decided to go about appointing these people. Courts have actually allowed departments to turn applicants away for having too high of an IQ level. Free thinkers are shunned. The main requirement seems to be a willingness to blindly follow orders. If that weren't enough, consider the way one becomes a law enforcement officer. It's not like we are taking the best, the most honest and just among our society to fill these roles. Those who become police officers do so because they chose to become police officers. And after looking at the benefits and rewards of becoming a police officer, what kind of people do you think are most likely to say to themselves, "Gee, I really want to be a cop"? We're telling people "If you choose this as your profession, then you will have instant authority. People will be required to obey you and respect you. And if they don't, you will have the power to do just about whatever you want in retribution." We've created a position which attracts two types of people: On one hand, there's the actual good, honest, just people who genuinely want to do good in the world, to make our country a better place, to serve and protect. On the other hand, there are the borderline psychopaths who are attracted to the power and authority of the job, and who possess what marginal intelligence is required to fool everyone long enough to make it through the academy without being seen for what they are. And then all of these people are put together in an environment where they are taught that it's wrong to uphold the law when it would mean going against another officer. How many times have you read a story in the news detailing how an officer was fired and sometimes jailed for being a whistle-blower and exposing corruption within a department? So it doesn't matter how many "good cops" there are, because there are always going to be "bad cops", and they operate in conditions which reward the bad cops and punish the good cops. And it's not like you can just change your mind and decide not to be a cop. You've already invested so much of your life to this career, and you run the risk of retribution should you decide to leave under the wrong circumstances. Until the "good cops" are able to, and actually do, start doing something about the "bad cops", things are just going to keep getting worse. Until the system changes, situations like this will just keep happening. They've been happening for over a century, and nothing substantial has been done to fix the problem. Personally, I'm all for a comprehensive review of the entirety of our law enforcement establishment, from every single uniformed officer all the way up to the chief of every single department, and all the way up to the top of the executive branch. To our children and our children's children I say this: Good luck, I fear for your safety, for your well-being, for your lives. We live in a society where those charged with our protection have been infested with a growing evil that shows no signs of abating, and unless something drastic is done soon, we may very well wake up and find ourselves in a world nothing like what our forefathers fought so hard to make possible all those years ago.

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