Philly’s police oversight agency is tracking dog shootings, but has done zero misconduct investigations

At the last public Citizens Police Oversight Commission meeting, the agency’s Investigations Unit spent 22 minutes of their 24-minute update discussing incidents of Philadelphia Police Department officers shooting dogs.

“The review is not necessarily to go after any specific officers,” said Investigations Unit director Nick Kato at the meeting. “But it is to look critically at the policy and see how we might have better outcomes for the dogs, the dogs’ owners, and police officers themselves.” Read more.

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