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I believe the full report uses the language "epidemic" of dog shootings by police, and highlights that it's hard to estimate accurately because many departments don't consider it something they even need to report.
That's how little of a shit they give about shooting your dog.
To be fair, the literal same is true of cops killing people. Not a stat legally required to be recorded in many states. Which is fucking insane.
Edit: posted below, only California and Texas have to report fatal use of force.
That's nuts, I didn't know that!
In my country, police have to account for every round fired if they deploy their weapons.
Same in Sweden, where not only do they have to account for every bullet, they also have to account for when the boot of the car (which holds all the weapons) is ever opened
Even in the fascist utopia of Watchmen with masked cops, they still required permission to access a firearm. US police are more insane than dystopian fiction.
I'm pretty sure that's still the case in the US as well. The Wire mentions it as a fact.
"Not a stat legally required to be recorded in many states" makes it sound like it would get mentioned in reports of gun firings, but they wouldn't then have to collate that information, come up with a total or publish or store the stat somewhere.
Just a quick search, knew it was California, couldn’t remember if Texas did or did not. The answer is they are supposed to but suck at it. So… 2/50 require reporting when a cop kills someone.
