I am not sure you understood me.
I guess I don't.
Perhaps you could clarify? I thought you were talking about, oh, that the size of the dog doesn't make any difference in the officer's experience or report. True, you said that you thought that fewer dogs should be killed by cops, and that the cops should be trained better in situational awareness, stress management and the options available other than deadly force, but that one statement...that the size of the dog doesn't matter when dealing with the credibility of the cop...caught my eye and attention.
Personally, I think that when a cop makes a report about an accident blamed on 'wind,' having him blame a dust devil for messing up his windshield, causing him to have a minor fender bender....
and when he reports that an F1 hurricane just pushed his car over the embankment, causing a crash, injuries and a totaled cop car....the size of the wind involved doesn't matter, and wouldn't be a factor in whether one believed him?
The size of the dog involved wouldn't alter the perception of danger in everybody present?
I have news; my son's Great Dane would lick a burgler silly before he growled at him. My little cairnchi would bark and growl like crazy. However, that Great Dane has caused considerable damage to others. He pulled ME over one day when he decided to go THAT way instead of THIS way...and when he realized that I was down and couldn't get back up, he trotted back and sat with me until I could, and was most solicitous. Probably the least dangerous dog I know, but I wouldn't want to be the one he ever got truly mad at.
....and my cairnchi, who weighs maybe 10 pounds, if that...couldn't hurt a toddler in full on attack mode. I know. He's tried. Toddler, one, Dobby, zip. Toddler now does anything she wants with and to him. Toddler thought he was playing. Now, of course, he is. But he wasn't. Scared ME silly. Toddler's mom wasn't a bit worried. She's seen her daughter deal with a cranky English bull dog.
Never mind. Rambling. Sorry.
Why wouldn't the size of the dog matter to the credibility of the report, if the dog were bigger than a chihuahua?
So....why wouldn't the size of the dog matter?