German Shepherd police dog on the run / courage zero - Page 3

Don‘t underestimate that a lot of local police forces don‘t have adequately trained professional k9 handlers, nor the resources like money and time to do so....but still want and get dogs... regardless.
Then stuff like this can happen.

That dog didn't look like it had ever even been exposed to any type of bitework. Only heard a couple of barks, no focus on the bad guy at all, was looking all around. I can't tell if that dog is definitely male. They do have 2 females that are narcotics only.

Adding to Jessejones reasons:

Departments have someone who knows absolutely nothing about dogs and training in charge.
Departments take donated dogs (save $$ and get ??).
Departments don't want to pay for any training/handler OT after initial dog purchase.
Departments want a PR dog for the community (I want to pet the police doggie).
Departments don't really want a dog that will actually bite (bad press, lawsuit).
Departments don't always pick the correct handler (not really into using/training with the dog).
Departments have the wrong person/company pick and train the dogs (don't know how to pick/train a dog for police work).

Zwei-
Absolutely correct. Looks like no to little training. Dog just wanted to watch, but not act.
It takes a lot of money and even more time invested in to dogs than a lot of local PDs can manage. Nor do many know how to pick a dog. Is he a German shepherd? check...ok, should be good for pw.
Ideally a K9 handler also needs a total passion for dogs, besides endless hours of training and observing... someone that eats and sleeps dog..and that can‘t be taught.

Plus...
I didn’t see if guy still had the knife.
In my opinion...never let your dog ‚pack‘ or fass, if assailant has a knife. No need to...and to allow it is tragedy waiting to happen to dog.

Bad guy tossed the machete aside before they took him down.

Some department paid a lot of money for this dog..
I am with Jesse and Zwei.

Joanro-
I saw he didn’t have machete anymore, but couldn’t tell if he still had the smaller knife that he was carrying in his left hand or not.

Oh. I missed that. Don't know.