Drug warriors kill dog

The more obvious it is that the War on (some) Drugs is lost, the less safe law enforcement practices apply. This further proves the corruption that prohibition creates. The War on Drugs is used to go after small-time drug offenders, prop up narcodictators in America and abroad, and shift attention away from government scandals and other social ills. The really big drug dealers don't have much to fear - and that includes the big pharmaceutical corporations who push psychotropic poisons on America's schoolchildren.

A couple's dog is dead in Prince George's County, Maryland, because sheriff's deputies burst into the wrong home during a drug raid and shot the dog. Authorities were so eager to carry out a failed "war" that they didn't bother to read the house numbers that were clearly displayed on each building.

What's worse is that by the time the cops shot the 5-year-old dog they knew they had the wrong house. The cops beat on the door for 45 minutes, refused to let the couple use the bathroom, then killed their dog - even though the dog posed no threat to the deputies.

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. About once every few months (and on an increasing basis) you read about a human or an animal being gunned down when drug agents raid the wrong building. Sometimes the building that gets raided is nowhere near the one they're supposed to raid. (A vast majority of incidents like this receive almost no media coverage, so the problem is even worse than it looks.) And people wonder why we don't trust the authorities?

If I lost a dog in a botched raid like this, there's no punishment I can think of that would be severe enough for those who killed the dog.

(Source: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1107/474003.html)