Non police entities, including animal organizations, have no business responding to crimes. If dogs are left out in the cold to the point where it is life threatening, it requires a police response. The argument that police do not respond appropriately to animal abuse related crimes has long been used as the justification for animal organizations to fill the shoes of the police, no matter how deficient, harmful, inadequate and ineffective this has proven to be.
If police responded appropriately to animal cruelty, would there be a need for animal organizations to advertise that they rescue dogs left out in the cold or that suffer from other forms of animal cruelty? Animal organizations prefer the existing, dysfunctional status quo because it is major source for their fundraising. As long as the public believes animal organizations, not the police, are the answer to animal cruelty, money will keep pouring in to these organizations.
Animal organizations should be advocates to ensure police respond appropriately to animal cruelty. This is what anti domestic violence and anti drunk driving organizations did for domestic violence and drunk driving. The only reason animal organizations have failed to do for animal cruelty what organizations did for those other crimes comes down to one single thing- greed. And because animals cannot speak the way people can, animal organizations get away with their exploitation.
When people see the commercials of animals suffering out in the cold, and they hear an animal organization claim to be the rescuer, they may reach for their checkbooks. If only they would turn their heads in disgust at the blatant exploitation. At least they should think hard about the message the animal organization is selling and ask - how can an animal organization, or all the animal organizations combined, ever respond to animal cruelty in all but the most minimal way, even if every animal organization has complete police powers? Only public law enforcement is capable of responding to crimes 24 hours a day, every day of the year, across the United States.
Dogs left dying in the cold, animals that are the victims of animal cruelty, deserve a broad based, widespread police response. Not the highly deficient, spotty, inefficient response that animal organizations provide. Token police teams that some police departments field to address animal cruelty, (or when police powers are granted to an animal organization) are ineffective public relations gimmicks that enable law enforcement to continue to minimally respond to animal related crimes. For every animal that is rescued from dying out in the cold, thousands of animals will not be as fortunate. As long as law enforcement continues to do little to nothing in regards to animal cruelty and dog fighting, and as long as animal organizations are the enablers that allow this to continue, few dogs dying out in the cold ever stand a chance.
If police responded appropriately to animal cruelty, would there be a need for animal organizations to advertise that they rescue dogs left out in the cold or that suffer from other forms of animal cruelty? Animal organizations prefer the existing, dysfunctional status quo because it is major source for their fundraising. As long as the public believes animal organizations, not the police, are the answer to animal cruelty, money will keep pouring in to these organizations.
Animal organizations should be advocates to ensure police respond appropriately to animal cruelty. This is what anti domestic violence and anti drunk driving organizations did for domestic violence and drunk driving. The only reason animal organizations have failed to do for animal cruelty what organizations did for those other crimes comes down to one single thing- greed. And because animals cannot speak the way people can, animal organizations get away with their exploitation.
When people see the commercials of animals suffering out in the cold, and they hear an animal organization claim to be the rescuer, they may reach for their checkbooks. If only they would turn their heads in disgust at the blatant exploitation. At least they should think hard about the message the animal organization is selling and ask - how can an animal organization, or all the animal organizations combined, ever respond to animal cruelty in all but the most minimal way, even if every animal organization has complete police powers? Only public law enforcement is capable of responding to crimes 24 hours a day, every day of the year, across the United States.
Dogs left dying in the cold, animals that are the victims of animal cruelty, deserve a broad based, widespread police response. Not the highly deficient, spotty, inefficient response that animal organizations provide. Token police teams that some police departments field to address animal cruelty, (or when police powers are granted to an animal organization) are ineffective public relations gimmicks that enable law enforcement to continue to minimally respond to animal related crimes. For every animal that is rescued from dying out in the cold, thousands of animals will not be as fortunate. As long as law enforcement continues to do little to nothing in regards to animal cruelty and dog fighting, and as long as animal organizations are the enablers that allow this to continue, few dogs dying out in the cold ever stand a chance.
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