How typical is this – the police of Freeport, Florida totally ignoring a blatant act of cat cruelty in broad daylight in front of two witnesses? A man walks up to an outdoor cat that was being looked after by two people, who I will presume are ladies, and fires two shots at the cat. The second shot was to the cat’s head to ensure the cat was killed. The man is a local resident. The ladies begged him to stop to no avail. It is simply a case of wanton cat cruelty of the worst kind. The man said he had shot the wrong cat. It seems very bizarre to me.
The bizarre became the absurd when the police did nothing about it and declared to the ladies who had made a complaint that “no criminal act was noted.”
Thus, the police considered a case of obvious animal cruelty, and a felony (a serious crime) under the criminal law, as perfectly legal and not a crime. This is turning the law upside down. It is not as if the prospect of a successful conviction is slim because of a lack of evidence. The police have all the evidence they need. This would be an almost guaranteed conviction.
If the police don’t arrest and charge people who are clearly engaged in criminal behavior it undermines the fabric of society as far as I am concerned. The rule of law is thrown out of the window and we have anarchy.
Is this a typical attitude of the police in respect of cat cruelty crimes? Elisa Black-Taylor who writes for PoC is constantly bringing to our attention stories that indicate to me that the police have a disdain for the domestic cat that prevents them carrying out their duties.
Police officers are under an obligation to behave to a high standard, which includes acting impartially and not introducing bias, preferences and personal attitudes into their work.
I sense that some police officers support the shooting of cats. In short, they are cat haters and dog lovers. It is a very crude, instinctive and uncivilised way to live.
Good police work requires a high degree of self-discipline and ethical behavior. None of these qualities were demonstrated by the Freeport police in their investigation of this crime.
What is disturbing is that the man who shot the cat seems to have believed that he could get away with it. If he thought that, it is because he is correct.
Stop saying these rude things, OK. If you repeat that sort of stuff I’ll ban you.
And stop rambling on mindlessly like a mental patient.
Hint: As much as you’d like to believe otherwise, your cats are not unique among the whole animal kingdom on earth throughout all of recorded history. The very same laws and principles in the way that humans interact with, regard, eat, use, or dispose of problem animals also apply to cats. There is nothing about cats that put them above the lives of any other animal on earth, and most certainly not above the lives of humans.
Until you comprehend this and deal with your psychoses concerning the value and unrealistic lofty place you hold for cats, you will fail to understand why the rest of the world does not agree with you. Nor will you ever get the rest of the world to agree with you.
Even less now that your cats are causing problems in millions if not billions of people’s lives. It’s all downhill from here where your cats are concerned. And there’s not one thing on earth that you can do about that now. It’s your own faults for forcing your cats onto others that should have never had to deal with them in the very first place.
That’s what happens when you become criminally irresponsible with your favorite pastime. No different than what happens to a bee-keeper next door when their bees become problematic for your neighbor that doesn’t want someone else’s bees in his backyard. The bee-keeper is then asked to cease and desist their activities. If not, then their favorite pastime that has now become detrimental to all other lives around them is taken from them BY LAW and destroyed.
So now goes the way of your cats. And it’s your own faults. Deal with it.
Yes, thanks Ruth. I don’t see the police can ignore something so blatantly illegal. I agree it would nice if we could add our voice to force the police to do something.
Your proof is in that very page from Alley Cat ALL LIES.
Why do you think no crime was committed, no charges filed, and that he was only advised to give them a little time to trap the rest of the cats that they wanted before he started shooting more of them?
Are you THIS brain-dead? Wow. Get tested for Toxoplasma gondii. Something has evidently hijacked your thinking processes.
Response from Michael: that is a feeble response. I asked for real evidence and you can’t provide it. A lawyer wrote to the police asking for action. They would not do that unless it was a crime.
Dee, I’d love to talk face to face with him provided he left his gun behind 😉 I’d tape the conversation and put it on the site as a podcast to let people judge for themselves.
But Woody always runs to his locked ward 😉 He never comes clean. Sad.
Garret – show me the evidence, please. Just show me why this is legal because it was an act of blatant cat cruelty and a crime.
Show me the webpage that proves it is legal. Quote the law and provide a witness statement.
You are talking through your backside Garret, as usual.