theinvisibleheart
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After playing with a professional dog trainer's dog, it occurred to me that I've never heard of a professional dog trainer or a private owner of a professionally trained dog either starving or beating a professionally trained dog to death. In the following 2 articles, one K-9 officer starved his K-9 rescue dog so that it died of starvation and dehydration (confirmed via post-mortem examination in which it was found that the dog went from healthy 66lb to 33lb) and another K-9 officer repeatedly kicked his K-9 until it died. These two different K-9 officers were veteran police officers by the way.
Could it be that an asset worth large sum of money(trained dog) is too valuable to be kicked to death or starved to death when it's your own money (in commercial/private sector) but not when it's the government? Kind of reminds me of agency gears and public goods, despite anticipated posters claiming how close the tie are between K-9 officers and their dogs.
How come trained dogs are not beaten or starved to death in commercial sector where it's regarded as commodities? Could it be that free market and private ownership is a much better caretaker than the government?
How come a professional dog trainer doesn't waste the asset (trained dog) under his/her care? Or a private sector owner of a trained dog?
MORAL/POINT OF THE STORY:
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1. People take better care of resources if it's their own or if they have paid for it. This is the reason why a professional dog trainer doesn't starve or beat their dogs to death simply because nobody throws away or burn or trash thousand dollar bills. A trained dog is a very valuable asset.
FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE APT TO MISUNDERSTAND THE ABOVE, IT MEANS IF A TRAINED DOG COST $10,000:
(i) FREQUENCY OF STARVING/BEATING TO DEATH OF $10,000 DOG IS LESS IF THE OWNER PAID FOR IT
(ii) FREQUENCY OF STARVING/BEATING TO DEATH OF $10,000 DOG IS LESS IF THE CARETAKER/OWNER HAVE TO BEAR THE COST OF THE ACTION
A very common example that is used most of the time is public vs. private restrooms. Most of the time, private restrooms are cleaner than public restrooms. It doesn't mean every private restroom is cleaner than every public restrooms. It means on average, people take care better care of private restrooms that they are responsible for than public restrooms.
2. People and agency take better care of resources (control cost) if their compensation/income was tied to how they performed in their jobs. With most government jobs, be it post office or police or public school, pay is not tied to performance.
A dog trainer or a caretaker of a trained dog that was owned by a corporate entity would most likely not abuse the trained dog. Why? Because abusing the resources under their control doesn't increase their profit and in fact, does the exact opposite (increase cost) and thereby, decrease net profit (total revenue - total cost).
FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE APT TO MISUNDERSTAND THE ABOVE, IT MEANS IF A TRAINED DOG COST $10,000:
a corporation which subsist on limited profit and faces competition is less likely to waste a $10,000 trained dog because every $10,000 TRAINED DOG THAT THEY STARVE OR BEAT TO DEATH comes from the shareholders and/or other owners of the corporation.
IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IN COMMERCIAL/PRIVATE WORLD, THERE ARE ZERO ABUSE OR WASTE. IT SIMPLY MEANS, IF I AM BEARING THE COST OF MY HARMFUL BEHAVIOR (I'M PAYING FOR IT) AND OTHER PEOPLE (OWNER, OTHER COMPETITORS IN THE MARKET) HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE, I'M LESS LIKELY TO ENGAGE IN IT.
TO REPEAT, COMPETITIVE FORCES IN THE MARKET HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE.
3. Competition moderates individual and organizational behavior. We've all had services by crappy commercial companies and government branches (DMV, USPS, etc.). The difference is that in the long run, crappy commercial companies does not persist forever unlike government entities. With government entities, just replacing few personnels does not change organizational behavior and culture. In commercial world, inefficient companies with poor reputation do go bankrupt. With government, this moderating behavior does not happen.
4. You want to maximize labor mobility (i.e., firing and hiring of workers). In commercial world, if an individual wasted a valuable asset like a trained dog for no reason, there would be no lengthy investigation during which the guilty party would be paid. Termination would most likely be swift and w/o pay. For this reason, closed union shop is not a good idea.
BTW, THE ABOVE POINTS ARE KIND OF COMMON SENSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT. I'M MUCH MORE LIKELY TO TAKE CARE OF ANY ASSET IF IT'S MINE OR IF I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR IT AND BEAR THE COST OF WASTING IT.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE ARE NO PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS OR CORPORATE ENTITIES THAT DOES NOT WASTE A $10,000 RESOURCE, BE IT DOG OR ANY OTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. However, most individuals doesn't pay $10,000 for a trained dog and starve/beat it to death because that dog represent $10,000 out of their own pocket. For corporations, wasting a $10,000 dog doesn't make economic sense.
Furthermore, if there are two firms: firm A routinely mismanages the care of $10,000 trained dog so that it keeps on dying. Firm B is in the same business but doesn't mismanage the care of $10,000 trained dogs so that it's bottom line (net profit) is higher. Shareholders are likely to sell shares of firm A and buy shares of firm B (higher bottom line).
Above example doesn't mean firm A (firm which wastes resources) doesn't exist in real world. It does. But in the long run, firms which depend on performance specific revenue cannot afford to indefinitely waste its resources like the government.
I hope I have cleared up the matter and/or beaten it to death.
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1. Sgt. Allen Cockfield of Miami PD (K-9 ofc for 25 years) kicked his K-9 repeatedly when it barked during training and the dog later died. BTW, until his arrest, Sgt. Cockfield was placed on pay.
http://www.local10.com/news/13416353/detail.html
Police Officer Charged In K-9 Partner's Death
German Shepherd Became Unconscious During Training Exercise
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POSTED: 9:22 pm EDT May 30, 2007
Sgt. Allen Cockfield turned himself in Wednesday afternoon to investigators at the Turner-Gilford Knight Correctional Center after
an arrest warrant was issued by the State Attorney's office.
The charges stem from an incident in which a 4-year-old K-9 named "Duke" collapsed on June 7, 2006, during training. The German Shepherd was rushed to Knowles Animal Clinic, where it later died.
A source told Local 10 that Duke had barked when it wasn't supposed to during a training exercise at the Miami Dade Training Bureau. It was participating in training with the rest of the K-9 unit. The source said that after Duke barked, Cockfield "lost it" and kicked the dog
several times.
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2. Ofc. Rondal Laroy Brown starved his rescue K-9 dog so that it went from healthy 66lb to 33lb when it died. It must have being incredibly painful for the animal to die from dehydration and starvation.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VALQ4O2&show_article=1
Miami Cop Charged in Dog Death
Mar 10 12:06 PM US/Eastern
Miami Police Officer Faces Cruelty Charges In K-9 Partners Death
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MIAMI (AP) - A Miami police officer surrendered Monday to face animal cruelty and other charges in the death of his K-9 partner, a female
bloodhound named Dynasty.
Officer Rondal Laroy Brown, 48, will be released on bail, his attorney said.
An investigation showed that Dynasty, who was donated to the Miami Police Department in 2004 and specialized in finding missing people, was in good health in January 2007 and weighed 66 pounds. In November when she died, the 4-year-old dog weighed only 33 pounds, had sunken eyes and missing hair, and had a wound on one paw.
Brown reported the dog had died on Nov. 30 and told a supervisor she had gotten loose and may have eaten some rat poison at a nearby
construction site. But a necropsy revealed Dynasty suffered from severe malnutrition and dehydration.
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Could it be that an asset worth large sum of money(trained dog) is too valuable to be kicked to death or starved to death when it's your own money (in commercial/private sector) but not when it's the government? Kind of reminds me of agency gears and public goods, despite anticipated posters claiming how close the tie are between K-9 officers and their dogs.
How come trained dogs are not beaten or starved to death in commercial sector where it's regarded as commodities? Could it be that free market and private ownership is a much better caretaker than the government?
How come a professional dog trainer doesn't waste the asset (trained dog) under his/her care? Or a private sector owner of a trained dog?
MORAL/POINT OF THE STORY:
________________________________________________________________
1. People take better care of resources if it's their own or if they have paid for it. This is the reason why a professional dog trainer doesn't starve or beat their dogs to death simply because nobody throws away or burn or trash thousand dollar bills. A trained dog is a very valuable asset.
FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE APT TO MISUNDERSTAND THE ABOVE, IT MEANS IF A TRAINED DOG COST $10,000:
(i) FREQUENCY OF STARVING/BEATING TO DEATH OF $10,000 DOG IS LESS IF THE OWNER PAID FOR IT
(ii) FREQUENCY OF STARVING/BEATING TO DEATH OF $10,000 DOG IS LESS IF THE CARETAKER/OWNER HAVE TO BEAR THE COST OF THE ACTION
A very common example that is used most of the time is public vs. private restrooms. Most of the time, private restrooms are cleaner than public restrooms. It doesn't mean every private restroom is cleaner than every public restrooms. It means on average, people take care better care of private restrooms that they are responsible for than public restrooms.
2. People and agency take better care of resources (control cost) if their compensation/income was tied to how they performed in their jobs. With most government jobs, be it post office or police or public school, pay is not tied to performance.
A dog trainer or a caretaker of a trained dog that was owned by a corporate entity would most likely not abuse the trained dog. Why? Because abusing the resources under their control doesn't increase their profit and in fact, does the exact opposite (increase cost) and thereby, decrease net profit (total revenue - total cost).
FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE APT TO MISUNDERSTAND THE ABOVE, IT MEANS IF A TRAINED DOG COST $10,000:
a corporation which subsist on limited profit and faces competition is less likely to waste a $10,000 trained dog because every $10,000 TRAINED DOG THAT THEY STARVE OR BEAT TO DEATH comes from the shareholders and/or other owners of the corporation.
IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT IN COMMERCIAL/PRIVATE WORLD, THERE ARE ZERO ABUSE OR WASTE. IT SIMPLY MEANS, IF I AM BEARING THE COST OF MY HARMFUL BEHAVIOR (I'M PAYING FOR IT) AND OTHER PEOPLE (OWNER, OTHER COMPETITORS IN THE MARKET) HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE, I'M LESS LIKELY TO ENGAGE IN IT.
TO REPEAT, COMPETITIVE FORCES IN THE MARKET HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE.
3. Competition moderates individual and organizational behavior. We've all had services by crappy commercial companies and government branches (DMV, USPS, etc.). The difference is that in the long run, crappy commercial companies does not persist forever unlike government entities. With government entities, just replacing few personnels does not change organizational behavior and culture. In commercial world, inefficient companies with poor reputation do go bankrupt. With government, this moderating behavior does not happen.
4. You want to maximize labor mobility (i.e., firing and hiring of workers). In commercial world, if an individual wasted a valuable asset like a trained dog for no reason, there would be no lengthy investigation during which the guilty party would be paid. Termination would most likely be swift and w/o pay. For this reason, closed union shop is not a good idea.
BTW, THE ABOVE POINTS ARE KIND OF COMMON SENSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT. I'M MUCH MORE LIKELY TO TAKE CARE OF ANY ASSET IF IT'S MINE OR IF I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR IT AND BEAR THE COST OF WASTING IT.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE ARE NO PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS OR CORPORATE ENTITIES THAT DOES NOT WASTE A $10,000 RESOURCE, BE IT DOG OR ANY OTHER PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. However, most individuals doesn't pay $10,000 for a trained dog and starve/beat it to death because that dog represent $10,000 out of their own pocket. For corporations, wasting a $10,000 dog doesn't make economic sense.
Furthermore, if there are two firms: firm A routinely mismanages the care of $10,000 trained dog so that it keeps on dying. Firm B is in the same business but doesn't mismanage the care of $10,000 trained dogs so that it's bottom line (net profit) is higher. Shareholders are likely to sell shares of firm A and buy shares of firm B (higher bottom line).
Above example doesn't mean firm A (firm which wastes resources) doesn't exist in real world. It does. But in the long run, firms which depend on performance specific revenue cannot afford to indefinitely waste its resources like the government.
I hope I have cleared up the matter and/or beaten it to death.
________________________________________________________________
1. Sgt. Allen Cockfield of Miami PD (K-9 ofc for 25 years) kicked his K-9 repeatedly when it barked during training and the dog later died. BTW, until his arrest, Sgt. Cockfield was placed on pay.
http://www.local10.com/news/13416353/detail.html
Police Officer Charged In K-9 Partner's Death
German Shepherd Became Unconscious During Training Exercise
________________________________________________________________
POSTED: 9:22 pm EDT May 30, 2007
Sgt. Allen Cockfield turned himself in Wednesday afternoon to investigators at the Turner-Gilford Knight Correctional Center after
an arrest warrant was issued by the State Attorney's office.
The charges stem from an incident in which a 4-year-old K-9 named "Duke" collapsed on June 7, 2006, during training. The German Shepherd was rushed to Knowles Animal Clinic, where it later died.
A source told Local 10 that Duke had barked when it wasn't supposed to during a training exercise at the Miami Dade Training Bureau. It was participating in training with the rest of the K-9 unit. The source said that after Duke barked, Cockfield "lost it" and kicked the dog
several times.
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2. Ofc. Rondal Laroy Brown starved his rescue K-9 dog so that it went from healthy 66lb to 33lb when it died. It must have being incredibly painful for the animal to die from dehydration and starvation.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VALQ4O2&show_article=1
Miami Cop Charged in Dog Death
Mar 10 12:06 PM US/Eastern
Miami Police Officer Faces Cruelty Charges In K-9 Partners Death
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MIAMI (AP) - A Miami police officer surrendered Monday to face animal cruelty and other charges in the death of his K-9 partner, a female
bloodhound named Dynasty.
Officer Rondal Laroy Brown, 48, will be released on bail, his attorney said.
An investigation showed that Dynasty, who was donated to the Miami Police Department in 2004 and specialized in finding missing people, was in good health in January 2007 and weighed 66 pounds. In November when she died, the 4-year-old dog weighed only 33 pounds, had sunken eyes and missing hair, and had a wound on one paw.
Brown reported the dog had died on Nov. 30 and told a supervisor she had gotten loose and may have eaten some rat poison at a nearby
construction site. But a necropsy revealed Dynasty suffered from severe malnutrition and dehydration.
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