Double Naught Spy
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The 500 came from here:
“We are nowhere close to having complete dog killing records for all 18,000 police departments,” Wieder told the Daily Dot. Puppycide DB looked at the dog-killing records of just 40 police departments. The data showed a mean killing rate of 10 dogs per department. Based on just that tiny sample, Wieder said, that rate would add up to 500 dogs a day nationwide.
So there are 18,000 departments and Wieder looked at 40. What 40 departments did Wieder look at to extrapolate to the other 17,960 departments? This is going to be a HUGE extrapolation. I would be willing to bet that Wieder didn't actually do a random sampling, but cherry-picked his departments. Keep in mind that the Puppy Database Project is NOT an unbiased source of information.
With that in mind, I looked at the updated database from 5 months ago. He has less than 1800 records of police shootings of dogs (including animal control officers) going back to 2000.
https://github.com/puppycidedatabas...65ae896136d26fa079900ea7b8/PDB_2016-01-17.csv
On this page, the read.me says....
https://github.com/puppycidedatabaseproject/pdb-database/blob/master/README.md
pdb-database
Copies of Puppycide Database Project research in various formats, as well as a KML map file highlighting 1260 incidents of police violence toward animals across the United States.
Data containing PII related to victim families has been redacted. Not all records have been santized for human error.
In short, he doesn't even have the data to support 25 dogs per day being killed.