The PDRK is at it again

I have a friend from high school who started at the LA County Sheriff's Office in 1990. When I caught up with him on "My Space" around 2002 he was so happy living in Los Angeles. By the time I checked in with him on Facebook around 10 years later, he was already planning on a retirement away from his adopted home state. I can see why, including this: 

Calif. bill banning use of police K-9s for arrests, crowd control passes 1st vote (police1.com)

...Assembly Bill 742 passed on a 6-2 vote in the Public Safety Committee, KRCA
The bill prevents the use of police K-9s for the purpose of arrest, apprehension, or crowd control in the following ways: 

• No use of an unleashed K-9 to arrest or apprehend a person. 

• No use of a K-9 for crowd control at any assembly, protest, or demonstration. 

• A K-9 cannot be used in any circumstance to bite. 

The bill will now advance to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. 

I cannot tell you how much this infuriates me. People who will never have to deal with taking a suspect into custody, controlling rioters (not protestors, rioters, such as the George Floyd riots of 2020), or having a suspect with a weapon are going to limit the weapons the cops on the street have. 

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to go to an alarm call, find signs of entry (e.g., door open, window smashed) and had the assistance of a patrol K9. For those of you who have not entered a house looking for a suspect, the K9 and his handler enter, usually with another officer following. The handler controls the dog, the escorting officer covers the K9 team, and they can find a suspect much quicker than a human. German Shepard’s sense of smell is at least 10, 000 times better than that of a human. He finds the bad guys and just the sound or presence of the dog gets the suspect to surrender And these racist idiots will endanger the lives of countless cops and civilians with this. 

I've said it too many times recently, cops, join the fire department. They don't want us working, we'll oblige. But it's too dangerous right now being a cop.