Los Angeles Police Dogs Only Bit Blacks And Latinos In The First Six Months Of 2013

[ariesgem]

A new report on the Los Angeles Sheriff Department Canine Special Detail finds that the number of minority individuals bitten by police dogs has dramatically increased between 2004 to 2012. In a department already plagued by accusations of racial targeting, 100 percent of dog bite victims in the first six months of 2013 were blacks and Latinos.

In the past nine years, the minority-heavy, urban areas of Century, City of Industry, Compton, Lakewood, and South LA/Lennox, experienced more dog bites than 21 other agencies or stations combined.

One of the more troubling aspects of the report found that police canines cause injuries at far higher rates than other weapons, such as batons, tear gas, and guns. The pressure from a dog bite is equivalent to “a car tire running over a body part,” as one federal judge put it.

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Los Angeles’ African American community has also seen excessive violence from the sheriff’s department. Last year, officers shot an 18-year-oldAfrican American teen while he was handcuffed, and then later tried to cover up the killing. Around the same time, officersstomped on a young black woman’s genitals before forcing her into the backseat of a police vehicle. The woman later died, leaving behind two young children.

Bruce Chase, the lieutenant in charge of the canine unit, insists that the department has and will continue to reduce its percentage of dog bites. Still, the LASD has been entrenched in police-sanctioned canine brutality since the 1980s. At the time, police called black youths “dog biscuits".

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/10/10/2760181/lasd-canine-use-minorities-2013/

[Blue_Tires]

1. So....Anyone want to try and explain this??

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/la-sheriff-dogs-only-bite-blacks-and-latinos

[jsr]

2. Link?

[ariesgem]

4. posted...

On edit...

[jsr]

5. Just saw it. Thanks!

[datasuspect]

3. fuck da police

[Bennyboy]

6. I had a dog once, a german shepard, who tried to bite two people

both of them were black. He never did that to anyone else.....both of them were unseen by the dog preceding the attack. Somehow he just knew. Both in a normal situation and in the same situation he would not bite non black people. We did not train this dog to do that, nor were we racists (At the time), but somehow the dog did not like black people.

[ariesgem]

7. "nor were we racists (At the time)"

Clarify, please..

[Bennyboy]

8. My Dad turned racist

in years to come, but at the time, there was none of that. In fact, not long before the dog incidents,my Dad sold the first house to a black family in my hometown. He told me about equality and we put up with all kinds of crap about that. Serious stuff.