RIVERSIDE, CA SETTLES IN PUPPYCIDE CASE OF BRAD PITT THE PIT BULL: How much is the life of a beloved pet worth? The city of Riverside and the owners of Brad Pitt the pit bull decided on $30,000. Those were the terms of a settlement the two sides reached more than a year after a police officer shot the dog to death on Aug. 23, 2012, while preparing to serve an arrest warrant on a murder suspect at a nearby home. The dog’s owners had sought $350,000. pe/articles/police-697664-wilson-dog.html Tax payers not only pay the salaries of PUPPYCIDE-GUILTY officers, we pay for their professional liability insurance which pays settlements & judgements in PUPPYCIDE cases. This article lasvegassun/…/lawsuits-alleging-civil-right…/ talks about AGRiP - the Association of Governmental Risk Pools. Money for the settlements comes from a self-insured liability fund maintained by the department that currently has about $17 million in it. The fund pays for liabilities ranging from eyeglasses officers break while on duty to the million-dollar legal settlements. Link to AGRiP: agrip.org/content.asp?contentid=227 Its Time for Cops to Stop Shooting Dogs: Another day, another horrific story about the police killing a beloved family pet. Maybe we need a new dictionary entry: “Vicious dog, n.: Any dog shot by a law-enforcement officer.” reason/…/06/its-time-for-cops-to-stop-shooting-d… *************************
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