California’s proposal to ban police canines was shelved in the Assembly on May 31 but is expected to return next year for consideration. Assembly Bill 742, authored by Assemblyman Corey Jackson (D-Perris) and Assemblyman Ah Kalra (D-San Jose), was introduced in February to end what they said was the deeply racialized and harmful practice of…
California’s Plan to Ban Police Dogs for Crowd Control, Arrests Stalls in Assembly
June 5, 2023
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California Bill to Ban Police K-9s for Crowd Control, Arrests Advances in Legislature
March 23, 2023
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A California bill to ban the use of police dogs for arrests and crowd control has advanced in a state Assembly committee March 21. Public Safety Committee members voted along party lines to pass Assembly Bill 742, introduced by Assemblymen Corey Jackson’s (D-Perris) and Ash Kalra (D-San Jose). Six Democrats voted in favor while the…
VIDEO: Police Officer Rushes Into Raging Texas Tornado to Rescue K9 Partner Trapped in Police Cruiser
A police officer was seen fighting through destructive winds to rescue his K9 partner in Deer Park, Texas, as a tornado hit the city on Tuesday, Jan. 24. In security camera footage that went viral, Officer Joel Nitchman is seen rushing out of a police station into the middle of a raging storm to rescue his…
Sheriff ‘Hires’ New 11-Week-Old K9 Officer, Son of Explosives Detection Dog, Asks Public to Help Name Him
The Union County Sheriff’s Office was honored to announce its newest “employee,” an 11-week-old German shepherd—who currently has no name. On Facebook last week, the officers called for the public to join in choosing a handle for the nameless pooch, temporarily dubbed “Puppy Doe.” “After a considerable amount of internal time and effort, we cannot…
Patriotic Pups: How One 11-Year-Old’s Idea Led to a Statewide and National Movement
In 2018, 11-year-old Emma Stanford and her Gold Star family from Palm Coast, Florida, mentioned to their local sheriff her desire to find a canine companion. He then sent a member of his K-9 unit to her home and it was love at first woof. Now 14, her efforts led to a new statewide program…
Man Held in Stabbing of Police Dog for Second Time This Year
December 18, 2021
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SAN DIEGO—A man sentenced in January to a year in jail for stabbing a San Diego police dog was arrested again Friday on suspicion of stabbing another police dog, authorities said today. Dedrick Jones, 35, was jailed Friday and faces seven possible felony counts, including harming a police dog and assault with a deadly weapon,…
Police Dog Takes Bullet for Fellow Officers, Making Ultimate Sacrifice—Gets Final Farewell
A Massachusetts police dog was hailed a hero after making the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow officers of the Braintree Police Department during a domestic dispute call. Fallen Belgian Malinois Kitt was transported via motorcade to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro for a private funeral service, where hundreds of the K9 officer’s colleagues bid him farewell…
Massachusetts Police Pay Tribute to K-9 Killed In The Line Of Duty
The Braintree Police held a memorial service at the Massachusetts Gillette Stadium on Tuesday for Kitt, a K-9 police dog that took a lethal hit during a June 4 shootout. According to a press release from the Braintree Police Department, officers responded to a domestic abuse call at the Braintree Village apartment complex in Braintree,…
Video Shows Ex-Police K9’s Hilarious Response When Owner Says ‘Cocaine’—and It Goes Viral
In a video that went viral on TikTok, an ex-police K9 yields a hilarious reaction, when his owner slips the word “cocaine” into an ordinary sentence to see if the highly trained sniffer dog will notice. In the clip, German shepherd Dante starts off panting away blissfully, chilling with his owner Davey Rutherford—who adopted Dante…
Retired Ohio Sheriff Dies With Tiny K9 Partner Chihuahua Following on Same Day
The Ohio county sheriff and his tiny police dog were inseparable, their lives unwaveringly intertwined. It thus seems fitting that retired Geauga County sheriff Dan McClelland, 67, and his crime-fighting partner Midge, 16, would both die on the same day, Wednesday, April 14—McClelland, at a hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer, and Midge, a…
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