There was a follow-up story in the Janesville Gazette about Edgerton’s former police dog, an animal that bit two people (one a police officer from another department, the other an office worker) before it was finally sent away. The cost of settling injuries to the police officer (apparently the lesser of the two injuries) was…
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Update 3: On Edgerton, Wisconsin’s Police Dog (Doggone and Dog Gone!)
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s good news from nearby Edgerton, Wisconsin, as members of the city council in that small town declined to reconsider a sensible decision to retire a biting police dog from service. See, Council Rebuffs Request to Reactivate Police Dog. The original council vote was unanimous to send back a dog that twice bit people (once…
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Update 2: On Edgerton, Wisconsin’s Police Dog (Return to Service?)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Update: This meeting may be moved to the Edgerton Library. I’ve written before about a police dog in Edgerton, Wisconsin that bit a police officer, and attacked a city worker, but was removed from service by a unamoious vote of the Edgerton City Council. (The council overrode the unsound decision of the Public Safety [sic]…
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Update: On Edgerton, Wisconsin’s Police Dog (Goodbye to the Biter)
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a follow up to the story about which I posted yesterday, about a police dog in Edgerton, Wisconsin that bit a police officer and a city worker, but was nevertheless kept in service by Edgerton’s public safety committee. Sensibly, Edgerton’s city council voted unanimously last night to send the dog back to the kennel…
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On Edgerton, Wisconsin’s Police Dog
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s an old expression that “every dog gets one free bite.” The expression is sensible — a person may do something wrong, but one should be lenient with a first offense. One could apply the expression to either dogs or people — an initial misdeed offers no prior history or warning for misconduct. I’m sure…
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The Mind of a Police Dog
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at Reason Magazine, Radley Balko has a fine article entitled, The Mind of a Police Dog. The subtitle’s a verity: how misconceptions about dogs can lead to abuse of humans. I’ve written before about use of police dogs. They require careful and consistent handling. Small departments, like one in Edgerton that briefly had a…
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Small-town Bureaucratic Persistence in Edgerton, Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over in Edgerton, Wisconsin, a place even smaller than my town of Whitewater, there’s been a sensible decision to “hold off on discussions over buying a new police dog until fall 2011, when the city plans for its 2012 budget.” See, Edgerton Delays Dog Decision. Edgerton’s former police dog bit a police officer from another…
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Idaho Police Dog Back to Work After Suspension
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s an odd story originally printed in the Idaho Mountain Express about a police dog named Dax that bit a schnauzer named Max. (I have written before about a biting police dog from Edgerton, Wisconsin, but that case was about serious injuries the dog inflicted on two people, one of whom was a police officer.)…
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NY Police Dog Finds Parole Violator on Dog’s First Day of Service
by JOHN ADAMS •
In the La Crosse Tribune, there’s a story about a police dog who found a parole violator after only two hours’ time on the job. After the unfortunate injuries from a police dog in Edgerton, Wisconsin, it’s reassuring to see that the combination of a good dog and a competent handler will produce good results.…
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Local Policing and Point-of-View Cameras
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There’s a story about my town’s (Whitewater, Wisconsin’s) decision to equip its on-patrol officers with point-of-view cameras. A small video camera will record officer interactions with residents. Reportedly, all interactions will be recorded, and at the end of each shift, officers [will] download all videos into a general file that would get deleted automatically after…
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Eleven Fifty-Nine for 7-8-10 (Famous and Not-So-Famous Canines Edition)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good evening, It’s a humid and cloudy evening, with a low temperature for tonight of about sixty-four in the offing. I’ve written before about a police dog tiny in Edgerton, Wisconsin that twice bit people, and was returned to be resold rather than continue serving that Wisconsin community. The dog, named Ash, has been sold…
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Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 6-11-10
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Today’s forecast for Whitewater calls for a day with an even chance of thunderstorms, and a high of eighty-seven. Edgerton’s former police dog has a new, and apparently temporary, home. See, Edgerton Police Dog Gets New Home. If there’s really no problem with the dog, then what does that say about the abilities…
Recent Tweets, 5-16 to 5-22
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Bet the chimp’s the better forecaster http://bit.ly/9tb4Du 3:12 PM May 21st via Seesmic TONIGHT watch IJ’s Bill Maurer on Stossel (Fox Bus., 8 p.m. & midnight ET) discussing IJ’s fight against gov’t reg. of grassroots activism. 4:01 PM May 20th via Seesmic RT @reasonmag: John Stossel on Asset Forfeiture Laws http://ow.ly/1NHCJ 4:00 PM May 20th…