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Those Doggone Police: Insufficient Training, Canine Companion Seizures, And Colorado’S Solution, Kaylan E. Kaatz
Those Doggone Police: Insufficient Training, Canine Companion Seizures, And Colorado’S Solution, Kaylan E. Kaatz
San Diego Law Review
This Comment advocates that California adopt Colorado’s Dog Protection Act or a similar measure mandating police training for dog interactions and implementing specific procedures by law enforcement agencies to reduce dog shootings by police. With the increasing occurrence and coverage of police dog shootings, the need for more adequate law enforcement training on animal encounters is ever present. Additional training, as recently mandated by the Colorado legislature, would minimize police dog shootings. It would also help clarify the applicability of 42 U.S.C. section 1983, the federal statute permitting recovery for the loss of a dog due to a police shooting. …