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Police dog bites can cause severe injuries but there has never been any legislation proposed or passed in California to regulate K-9s. In the Bay Area, San Jose police lead the pack with the most number of dog bites.
KTVU focused in on about more than a dozen specific cases where police deployed K-9s on people, looking at the injuries they incurred and the reasons the canines were told to "find and bite." Here are their stories:
As a result, dispatchers had to do extra work to establish "talk groups," Nickel said. Any agency that switches away from encryption while all of its neighbors encrypt would face the same challenge. Furthermore, when an agency with encrypted radios communicates with one with nonencrypted radios, the communication defaults to nonencrypted communication and, as a result, the agencies fall out of compliance with the DOJ order when personal information is transmitted, Nickel said. While Nickel said that the choice of whether or not to encrypt is ultimately up to each individual agency, his agency...