Welcome News From New Jersey Regarding Animal Cruelty Investigations

     New Jersey is passing a bill that will prohibit an animal organization from conducting animal cruelty investigations, and will place the responsibility on sheriff departments and other public law enforcement.
      A representative from a major national animal organization applauded the move - following public sentiment as they always do, and not necessarily out of their own conviction- even though  officials from that organization, including their president, were told years ago why no animal organization should investigate animal cruelty. The organization's president was informed about the ineffective, often harmful investigations animal organizations were conducting. He was informed about police not responding appropriately to animal cruelty and dog fighting, including from calls made to 911. He was told that animal organizations need to be advocates to ensure an appropriate police response, and that animal organization investigations not only were ineffective and often harmful, but also enabled police to continue to do little to nothing in regards to animal cruelty and dog fighting. He promised to look into the matter and get back in contact, which never happened. For this organization to now pretend to be concerned about how outdated and ridiculous it is for an animal organization to conduct animal cruelty investigations instead of public law enforcement is truly disingenuous. They never once lifted a finger to change the pathological dynamic of how animal cruelty and dog fighting are enforced, and have done nothing, along with numerous other animal organizations, other than to exploit dog fighting and animal cruelty for their own gain. This pathological dynamic was explained to a number of animal organizations, animal activists, reporters, and others, who proceeded to do absolutely nothing, thereby guaranteeing enormous unnecessary pain and suffering.
      If New Jersey throws a bone to the so called animal activists, and does what some other police departments have done- form small, ineffective anti animal abuse teams that are nothing more than an excuse for larger law enforcement to continue to do nothing- then there will not be success. Unfortunately, there are few animal organizations and animal activists concerned with something other than making money or themselves so that real structural change becomes near impossible to implement.
      Maybe New Jersey will be the start of something that should have taken place decades ago. It should have come from Chicago, but that is a whole other story.