Odin lunges during training at the Richmond Police K-9 training facility. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group File Photo)
There’s no place in police work for dogs trained to bite.
That’s probably not what you would expect to hear from someone with 30 years in law enforcement and a lifetime owning and handling the kinds of highly trained dogs used by police.
It’s not that I don’t love dogs or know what they can do. Quite the contrary.
There’s no mistaking someone bitten by a police dog, and I’ve seen it too many times over my career. Bones cracked and broken. Flesh and ligaments torn.