All Cops Are Buttheads

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

I wish the press would raise public awareness about cases and figures like this, instead of continuing the copaganda that these are rare events:

Cop shoots blind 13lb family dog claiming he thought it had "rabies"

Cops kill dogs in staggering numbers: more than ten thousand of them a year. It comes from their training, which is to escalate violently in pursuit of a notional safety that exists mostly to justify that use of violence. And it comes from their inclination: the job attracts angry, violent people who are always looking for that unsafe place. Too bad most of the media spends more time on copaganda than on exposing these points. In a nation of people so concerned about pets, it …

Of course, the FBI doesn’t include people killed by police in their figures, so what chance do those poor dogs have?