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.
Another 40 cents he’s contributed anyway to the September donation so every cloud has a silver lining.
But talk about thick!
Woody is so predictable and never changes his record and if he thinks he convinces anyone at all he’s right in his hatred then he’s even more deluded than is obvious by reading his rubbish.
This is a meaningless ramble. If you said something like this in court you’d be told to shut up. I asked for hard evidence and you can’t provide it as usual. All you do is rant and ramble. It is what I expected. The comments will be closed to you on this page now because you’ll just start to annoy others.
Obviously, you don’t realise you are being rude. You don’t know the meaning of the word.
You just don’t get it, do you. LAWS are ONLY put in place to PROTECT some species from being hunted, used for food, or to protect it from extinction.
If there ARE NO LAWS to protect an animal from being killed then it falls under the laws and guidelines for every other animal on earth — LEGAL TO KILL OR DESTROY WHENEVER WARRANTED.
It is the LACK OF LAWS to protect cats from being shot to death THAT MAKES IT PERFECTLY LEGAL. YOU CANNOT VIOLATE A LAW THAT DOES NOT EXIST — NOR WILL IT EVER EXIST WHEN IT COMES TO CATS.
As are the laws in your very own country. If it is legal to butcher a hog, chop the head off of a chicken, etc. on someone’s homestead or farm then it is ALSO legal for anyone to destroy ANY cat on their own property in your own country.
re: “A lawyer wrote …” Now that’s a laugh. The same lawyer from Alley Cat ALL LIES that throws their own followers under the bus every time someone starts up an ILLEGAL cat-colony in their region. That “lawyer” conveniently disappears when that illegal TNR practitioner is then dragged through the courts and fined and convicted of animal-neglect, animal-abuse, and animal-endangerment. That “lawyer”?
Facts are not “rude things”. They’re just facts.