Joel Alejo was taking a nap in the backyard of his family’s Mountain View home when he was startled awake by a German shepherd's teeth piercing his right leg."Dersh! Dersh! Dersh! Deeerrrsh!" the dog’s Palo Alto police handler cried, compelling the animal in its native Czech to bite again and again.
Law enforcement agencies across the country rely on K-9 units – and their sophisticated noses – to find missing people, sniff out explosives and help rescue stranded victims trapped inside hard-to-find places. And even as California has recently adopted a variety of use-of-force reforms following a national reckoning around police accountability, K-9 use has remained largely unregulated on a state level.
The varying numbers are likely influenced by factors like crime rates, size of the police jurisdiction and the number of K-9s each agency has. "Each department can set its own rules, or no rules at all," said Bay Area civil rights attorney John Burris. A review of state records shows there has never been any legislation proposed or passed in California to regulate K-9s and that discipline for officers is rare.
Don’t be a criminal and you won’t get bit. BS reporting and one sided.
This is also a bill are people need to git through no more dog's they should only be used for search and rescue Mandatory
JulieHaener What a one sided “story”. How about the stats of how many K-9 have been injured or killed apprehending “suspects”? Which equals how many police officer lives have been protected and SAVED. A K-9 in Fairfield was just recently stabbed AND bitten. Shame on .
Instead I propose we give them lasers for their heads so they can have a warm meal, we've seen how the recent changes to criminal law have worked out, criminals 'vacation' in California now, knowing the cops have already been defanged!
I’m not getting attacked by a k-9 unit because I don’t steal shit
These dogs only bite criminals....this story is useless
Good dogs 👍🏽
Good boy 🦴
that's ruff
Don’t resist and you won’t get bitten. KTVU is making everyone less safe.
There’s a reason for that.
There should be very specific times when police are authorized to use K-9's, and they should be treated with the same governing protocols as when officers use their guns.
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