Carver Police Officer Dives Deep to Save Dog Submerged in Car

[Evergreen Emerald]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/06/08/carver-police-officer-dives-deep-save-dog-submerged-car/WCm8sBqZI3aTvl3Kgex3wN/story.html

Its owner, Debra Titus, of Plymouth, and another pup were able to escape the pickup truck as it sank, though a second spooked pooch remained trapped underwater when officers arrived.

[mnhtnbb]

1. Finally, a good cop/dog story! Lucky pooch.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. That's nice. But we have some serious issues with law enforcement in this country.

And a cop saving a dog--instead of shooting it--doesn't make them go away.

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. There are good and bad police officers

We can address problems without creating the impression that all law enforcement is evil, which appears to be the way they are presented on DU. That lie is not conducive to fixing any problems, but rather simply to push a biased agenda.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. We need a national commission on law enforcement standards and practices.

That is my stock response to such stories. I don't even have to type it out anymore.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Police are hated throughout the world - not just on DU

In Mexico they are openly corrupt and dispense life and death to the people who fear them as we would fear gang members. In China (I've visited there and seen it) they control and profit from prostitution and are the pimps. In Europe in countries like Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, and several others the people still remember how their friends and neighbors on the police force became the enforcers of Nazi policies over night and began turning them in and how they automatically shifted depending on where the wind was blowing from. In America, I assume there are still people alive today who remember how the police were the seat of power for the Ku Klux Klan down South and how they loved beating on striking workers during the depression. I think hatred for the police is deeply seated in all societies. I've never been to a country where they generally love the police. Maybe one day we'll have robots programmed to treat people without emotion that act as our police.

I don't mean to sound like I hate the police. I treat them with respect and fear them. I've been very happy to see a cop when my car has broken down on a dark and lonely road. At the same time, I've had guns pulled on me for no reason. I've been unapologetically dragged out of my car at gunpoint in front of my girlfriend's house, slammed on the pavement, and had my hands cuffed because I allegedly looked like a suspect they were looking for. I WANT the police to be good guys and I don't enjoy hating on them. They aren't always the good guys and every time I interact with them I know my blood pressure goes up and I breathe a sigh of relief when they've gone. To me they're unpredictable.

[Aerows]

6. They are a box of chocolates

You never know what you are going to get - an almond filled one that saves your day and tastes great, or an arsenic laden one that puts you in the hospital or the grave. And I say that as a petite white woman that has never had more than a speeding ticket.

I've *STILL* encountered bad ones.