Los Angeles Dogs Accused of Racism

Racist' LA police dogs only bite Latinos and African-Americans

A new report focusing on the Canine Special Detail of the LA Sherriff’s Department (LASD) has uncovered a vast increase in the number of minority individuals bitten by police dogs since 2004.

And in the first six months of this year, every single victim of a bite by a LASD dog was African-American or Latino.The data was published in a new report by the Police Assessment Resource Centre (Parc), a Los Angeles-based non-profit organisation, devoted to “advancing effective and accountable policing”.

Or as we in the United States spell them "Center" and "organization".  And here I thought the convention was to use the words as actually used written by the organization. 

According to Parc records, the number of Latino individuals bitten by LASD canines went up 30 per cent between 2004 and 2012, from 30 to 39 bites. The number of African-Americans bitten increased by 33 per cent over the same period.

Meanwhile, police dog bites caused injuries at a much higher rate than alternative deterrents such as batons, tear gas and even guns. “Large swathes of LASD’s jurisdiction, encompassing generally affluent areas with smaller minority populations, had few [canine] deployments or bites,” the Parc report states.

I guess the writers would prefer the perps get shot rather than bit.

“Crime rates are lower in these areas, but the stark disparity leads us to wonder why canine deployments seem to occur disproportionately in less affluent areas with larger minority populations.” During the period covered in the report, the largely black or Latino areas of Century, City of Industry, Compton, Lakewood and South LA/Lennox suffered more dog bites than all of LASD’s other 21 districts combined.

The reason that there are very few police dog bites in more affluent areas without minority majorities is obvious.  Police simply don't take police dogs where they don't expect to need them. Apparently the writer thinks a lot of Scandahoovian grandmothers need to get bit by police dogs, to justify the dog bites of a few black and Hispanic thugs, sort of the equivalent of the TSA needing to grope a few million innocent people of random race in order to discourage a few Arabs from bombing or hijacking airplanes.