Decades Old Perfect Storm Enabling Dog fighting And Animal Cruelty to Thrive

     Talking about dog fighting and animal cruelty is a a good way to raise money and gain an audience without ever having to do anything. The advocacy to ensure public law enforcement responds appropriately to animal cruelty and dog fighting remains absent. A number of animal organizations continue to fall over themselves in their eagerness to present themselves to the public as the answer to animal cruelty.

Mothers that opposed drunk driving and anti domestic violence organizations knew that they had to change the poor police response to domestic violence and drunk driving. They did not tell the public to call a mother to chase down a drunk driver, or to call an anti domestic violence organization to respond to domestic violence crimes. Instead, they advocated for an appropriate, widespread police response.

One person from an anti animal cruelty organization held seminars talking about dog fighting and animal cruelty, telling people to call 911 or her organization when they witnessed dog fighting and animal cruelty. She had already been informed that the police were ignoring and not responding appropriately to animal cruelty and dog fighting calls, with extremely few exceptions, and that her organization's humane investigators were providing dog fighters and animal abusers with a heads up  opportunity to move their animals elsewhere after being paid a visit by a humane investigator.

Police departments, politicians and animal organizations are glad to join the talk band wagon regarding how horrible are dog fighting and animal cruelty. No one, not the public, not the media, not the politicians, are willing to challenge the charade. The perception continues that animal activists and animal organizations are the places to support and send money when it comes to animal abuse and dog fighting. Police departments get to continue doing little to nothing when it comes to these crimes. Some police departments and animal organizations field ineffective token police teams that are little more than an excuse for greater law enforcement to continue to do little to nothing. Notice how there are no special token forces responding to drunk driving and domestic violence. These crimes, just like animal cruelty and dog fighting, can happen anywhere, anytime, and only public law enforcement operating 24 hours a day, every day of the year has the ability to appropriately response.  Animal cruelty and dog fighting, like any other crime of violence, should be responded to appropriately by widespread public law enforcement. Not by ineffective token police teams, not by animal organizations, and not by humane investigators. The only thing animal organizations should do - other than ensure police do their jobs when it comes to dog fighting and animal cruelty -  is help police remove animals that need to be confiscated and to board the animals (if no space is available in a public animal shelter)  until a court has made a ruling.

Why is it near impossible for the common occurring crimes of dog fighting and animal cruelty to finally be treated like other crimes by public law enforcement at large? The answer, assuming anyone is interested, is a story that needs to be told.