Worth a watch...

 Lazy8 wrote:  They have also started handcuffing and detaining firefighters at the scene of an accident. With victims still on the ground. 

I think it has less to do with the specific training, but the overall attitude. Treat every single person (or animal) as a threat. Treat them as 'the enemy', and take absolute control of the situation, period. It's drilled into them in training: everybody you encounter could mean to do you harm.

Lazy
I think a dose of pepper spray would have done the trick. Some people are just scared of dogs.

 RASPUTIN wrote:

May not be able to overcome the fear but it isn't that hard to read dog body language and determine if there's really any danger. It would probably also help to use Tasers and pepper spray more and firearms less.

Cops shoot dogs way too often. I haven't heard of training for that either but maybe its time has come.

Red_Dragon wrote:
Ii agree, but being a cop doesn't make you not scared of dogs. You either are or you aren't. I have been bitten in the face once when I was 5. There are only a couple kinds of dogs I'm scared of now, but one would be a big one close to me, growling at me. I've never even heard of any training to overcome that fear.

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
No, I haven't. I did however spend many years working in the field for my current employer and encountered plenty of dogs; not one of which ever bit me. There are ways of dealing with them that don't involve kicking or shooting.

Red_Dragon wrote:
Nothing. Hell, you ever been bitten in the face by a dog? Kinda makes you leary of the ones that growl at you.

 Lazy8 wrote: 
Don't watch vids much at work; I read the text. Generally kicking a dog is gonna piss it off. He's afraid of dogs and he's a cop? What's wrong with this picture?

 Red_Dragon wrote:
Did you listen to the early part of the video? He doesn't come across as that at all. I think he's just afraid of dogs and didn't know how to handle the situation he found himself in.

 RichardPrins wrote: 
Apparently a lot of the cops in this country could benefit from some training in not being callous rednecks.

Cop Shoots Service Dog During Kid's Birthday Party - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Red_Dragon wrote:
Ayup

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
Doing the right thing is generally the more difficult choice.

Red_Dragon wrote:
No it isn't. I don't think the pound even takes cats. I think if he gave a crap he'd at least find some cat rescue someplace but that's probably more trouble than just killing it.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
Feral animals are/can be a problem but that isn't an excuse for cruelty.

Red_Dragon wrote:
The real problem is people just turning them loose around here. I think a couple got in his boat one winter and pretty much schredded the interior. If he can, he traps any that get in his yard. I love cats and we've spent a fortune fixing strays and feeding them but we can't have ten cats in the house, and we can't tell them where not to roam.

 RASPUTIN wrote: 
that shit's messed up

Red_Dragon wrote:
See, THAT you can go to jail for.

 MsJudi wrote: 
Agreed, it takes a special kind of sick to do shit like that.