Hammond police officer placed on leave, investigated for allegedly abusing K9 dog

[Jesus Malverde]

A northwest Indiana police officer has been placed on leave as he is investigated for the alleged abuse of a K9 dog.

Video of the incident was posted on the internet Thursday.

It appears to show the officer lifting the dog by its collar and hitting it with a leash. It happened on a busy street with other officers on the scene.

Read More: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/indiana&id=9524100

disgusting

[defacto7]

1. They actually said "K9 dog".

Hard to believe.

[TorchTheWitch]

2. why? it's proper

"K9" is the unit of officers and dogs. "K9 officer" refers to the human police officer handler, and "K9 dog" refers to the police dog. "K9" or "K9 unit" refers to the unit of human officer handlers and their partner police dogs.

By just saying "K9" there's only context to use if one is talking about the unit, the human officer or the police dog.

More commonly K9 dogs are referred to by both officer handlers and civilians as police dogs. In the course of an officer handler's job "K9" almost always refers to the unit, not the dogs nor the officer handlers.

[defacto7]

4. I learned something.

Thanks.

If one doesn't know that the name of the unit is called "K9" it could be thought of as rather redundant. Well, even in this context it's still redundant. "K9 officer" makes sense, "K9 Unit" also makes sense, "K9" dog is a little better, but K9 dog? If your not up on police terms it would make more sense to say "a dog from the K9 unit" or "a K9 unit dog". No matter what, K9 dog is redundant unless one gets used to the unusual term. I'll know better next time.

Also, sorry for getting so far off post.

[TorchTheWitch]

3. sickening

I can't watch the video. I can never stomach seeing any animal abuse. Just thinking about it makes me so ill and angry.