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Ours arrived this morning.

Utter, utter, utter dross. I shall post it back in the nearest post box when the local hoodies have found something more interesting than hanging around it, looking bored.

why is it that the public fear that every ‘weapon’ of justice will be immediately misused

Experience. Good, old fashioned experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HECMVdl-9SQ&feature=kp

The Police are damned either way.

Oh no. The police are now the tools of the state, oppressing whenever the state needs protest silenced. They have damned themselves.

The officer who assists a little old lady across the road and helps find lost kids is hugely different from that monster dressed all in black, baton out, coming at you with the one honest intention of beating you mercilessly to the ground in his unseen eyes.
The well regarded copper of yesteryear has become the uncaring officer of 2014; they care little about the law but demand your (but, for the most part and with good reason, get little) respect (I witnessed two cycle cops, cruising through a crowded pedestrian precinct, chatting away until they told a woman wi8th kids to ‘mind your own f”$%#@*g business‘ as they cycled past yet another no cycling sign). Some have appointed themselves judge, jury and (occasional) executioner – Ian Tomlinson, Jean Charles de Menezes, Stephen Waldorf, James Ashley, Harry Stanley, Mohammed Abdul Kahar, Azelle Rodney, Blair Peach, Richard O’Brien, Anthony Grainger, Olaseni Lewis, etc. The public are regarded as something to control, a lower caste.

But that is not a problem to you, is it…

it’s the animals fault.

No. If your dog attacks somebody, whether through provocation or just for the hell of it, it is your fault.

Like a gun you cannot blame a dog for the way it is used; you can blame the owner for not being trained or for poor handling, but then you need to ask – just like a gun – if that dog (that sweet, loveable, big old softy who wouldn’t harm a fly) was really necessary or was it just there to massage your wimpy ego.

I have a 19month old daughter who has the hugest smiles and gives wonderfully loving cuddles, who loves dogs (and cats, even tortoises!) but when one comes bounding up to her and the owner says it is fine for her to stroke the doggy I am on edge, ready to throw myself onto that potentially savage beast and save my daughter. She knows our rescue cats are quite contrary since one will have a swipe at her when he is in a foul mood and he thinks I’m not watching (and he knows too, since he has been tossed out into the rain for the night at least once as punishment, which is why he watches me too). But domestic cats DO NOT have the same attack capabilities as a dog: that one in America the other month was a one off, unlike all those other dog attacks that you can read about every other week.
Even apparently well trained dogs can flip – that police dog that attacked an arrested man, lying on the ground in Weston-Super-Mare, was obviously not under the control of its handler (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-27298762) when it lunged and grabbed the man, dragging him along by his shoulder – so what dog can you really trust?

In that respect you can blame the bias of the questions asked, but water cannon won’t help quell a riot in Britain. The only way would be to kettle protesters and by that point they are subdued and essentially detained – firing water cannon at them then would be similar to a beating in the cells, which the police are also happy to provide…

I bet most attacks by dogs on children are child invoked but they don’t make the headlines so you don’t get the dogs side of things.Headlines sell but child teasing,abusing, the dog who then reacts the only way it knows how doesn’t have the same sensationalist impact.
If children cant be trusted with an animal then the parents should keep the child away or teach it correctly.

???
And if a dog cannot be trusted, what then?

Hell, a child pulling a dogs tail doesn’t make the headlines; a dog savaging and/or killing a child is not a good PR exercise for canines or their owners – it makes the headlines, whether the dog was abused, fed or not fed, trained or not trained.

And what about the innocents?

Or are there no innocents – like Boris and his quip about having done nothing to deserve being fired at by a water cannon – when the police draw a line?