People Exploiting Animals (PEA), A New Umbrella Animal Organization

     Animals organizations make all kinds of claims regarding animal cruelty, dog fighting, humane treatment of animals, ethical animal treatment, and so forth.

      No animal organization should be in the business of investigating animal cruelty. Their investigations are almost always ineffective, and often harmful. By doing ineffectively at best what public law enforcement should be doing, animal organizations are the enablers that allow law enforcement to minimally respond to animal related crimes. When animal organizations investigate animal cruelty, with or without police powers, this is nothing but a publicity stunt that brings in contributions for the organizations, and allows public law enforcement to continue to do little to nothing about animal related crimes. When anti drunk driving and anti domestic violence advocates realized the police were responding poorly to those crimes, they did not take it upon themselves to investigate or field token forces to do the jobs of police. Instead, they advocated for an appropriate police response. Imagine if instead of a widespread police response to drunk driving and domestic violence, anti drunk driving and anti domestic violence organizations were substitutes for the police. It would mean that drunk driving and domestic violence laws would be enforced minimally in a few isolated places at best. There would be an explosion in those crimes, far beyond what exists now.

         Animal cruelty is often investigated by animal organizations that have no police powers. The investigations by these organizations are toothless and often harmful. Frequently their investigations are nothing but an opportunity for dog fighters and animal abusers to move their animals elsewhere. These organizations are granting a "heads up" to criminals.

      When animal cruelty is investigated by token police forces, or by animal organizations with or without police powers, the enforcement of animal abuse and dogfighting laws becomes rare and dysfunctional. Animal abuse are crimes that can occur anywhere, 24 hours a day, like many other crimes. When the enforcement of any crime, including animal cruelty, is limited to token forces that have police powers (whether fielded by a police department or by an animal organization that is granted police powers) or to animal organizations that investigate but lack police powers,  the result is disastrous. In fact, this dysfunctional approach works to the advantage of those that fight dogs and commit other crimes against animals. It works to the advantage of animal organizations who get to continue pretending they are doing something meaningful about animal cruelty and dogfighting, and therefore continue to get contributions (money). It works to the advantage of police departments that want to ignore or minimally respond to animal cruelty. It does not work to the advantage of the animals and people affected by these crimes.

          What is the need for a new animal organization called PEA ( People Exploiting Animals)? PEA can be an umbrella organization for all the others. It will be as ineffective and as exploitative as the others. But it will differ in one aspect. It will be honest. It will not hide its ineffectiveness, harmfulness, unwillingness to advocate for law enforcement to respond appropriately to animal abuse, or its eagerness to exploit animals to raise money and promote itself.