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I don't know about you guys but I am a gadget cop. I'm partial to flashlights and knives. But we as K9 cops get all sorts of gizmos shown to us to make our dogs strong or faster...almost bionic. When I first started working a dog, I thought it was the coolest thing to deploy the dog via the remote door opener. Our first door pop was pretty good because I was already out of the car and I needed him so I hit the button and he actually broke the door off the piston to get out and I was really stoke… Continue

We have all seen the video's, the dog that doesn't engage a suspect. I'll tell you from first hand experience, it is a sucky thing to watch in person, especially when it is your dog. Hell, we trained for hours and to have him fail to engage on an easy bite was embarrassing. And to top all of that, we already had several street bites. But they way the administration handled it was dead wrong. Instead of immediately addressing the issue with training, they took the dog out of service. Now that I a… Continue

I'm not talking about just one K9 team, I'm talking four K9 teams. Having a fire sale with the dogs too. All this to try and save some money. I understand the need to save money in these economic times, but with a bad economy comes more drug use and violent crime. K9 teams are an established part of the use of force ladder. You take that away, not only do we place officers in situations where we normally send a "replaceable" dog into, but we also are going to using a higher level of force on sus… Continue

Ok, I know I am going to piss a few people off but I'm usually the guy poking a stick at the bee hive anyway. I am curious to get opinions about the different imported dogs and their training styles and how it fits into American Law Enforcement. I was lucky and got train with a large agency and saw dogs from everywhere. The dogs that I saw with the most issues for law enforcement were Schutzhund dogs. Excellant trackers but very equipment focused. Drop the sleeve and run away worked for me to ge… Continue