Today, the company that has trained more police officers in lethal force than any other stresses that police officers aren’t shooting people enough, and teaches them to get over the natural human tendency to hesitate before snuffing out another life. Older police officers interviewed for this book say they couldn’t remember a single time they or a colleague killed a dog. One recent study found that in Los Angeles alone, police killed about sixty dogs per year.4 Another found a strong correlation between police militarization and the rate at which officers kill both dogs and human beings.
