Posted on Dec 3, 2015
FBI to start tracking animal cruelty in 2016. How can tracking animal cruelty help?
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Specifically they are going to track:
– Simple or gross neglect
– Intentional abuse and torture
– Organized abuse, including dogfighting and cockfighting
– Animal sexual abuse
Studies show young people who kill and torture animals often tend to do violent crime against people later in life. Reviews of the lives of violent criminals such as Jeffery Dahmer, Ted Bundy and the like have shown that they began abusing insects and animals early in life and that this trend went unnoticed and unreported or regarded as unimportant during their youth. Another interesting fact is that 70% of school shooters abused animals prior to the event.
Did you know? "The standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders lists cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorders."
Animal abuse will now be placed in the same category of offense as crimes like kidnapping, homicide and rape. Hopefully this will aid in predicting and derailing violent acts. Getting help for someone who does this at an early age could be a deterrent to more serious acts later in life.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/article47178385.html
– Simple or gross neglect
– Intentional abuse and torture
– Organized abuse, including dogfighting and cockfighting
– Animal sexual abuse
Studies show young people who kill and torture animals often tend to do violent crime against people later in life. Reviews of the lives of violent criminals such as Jeffery Dahmer, Ted Bundy and the like have shown that they began abusing insects and animals early in life and that this trend went unnoticed and unreported or regarded as unimportant during their youth. Another interesting fact is that 70% of school shooters abused animals prior to the event.
Did you know? "The standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders lists cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorders."
Animal abuse will now be placed in the same category of offense as crimes like kidnapping, homicide and rape. Hopefully this will aid in predicting and derailing violent acts. Getting help for someone who does this at an early age could be a deterrent to more serious acts later in life.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/article47178385.html
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CPT (Join to see) - Not too sure of the success of this program, but I am all for putting a spotlight on people who commit animal cruelty. They are very sick individuals.
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I thought they started tracking this a few years ago. It would help keep an eye out for disturbed individuals
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A further step in the right direction would be to make animal cruelty a felony rather than a misdemeanor.
A further step in the right direction would be to make animal cruelty a felony rather than a misdemeanor.
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Well if I am to believe the Statistics and the Shrinks those that go on to commit more Heinous Crimes start out as Animal Abusers. It might make a nice reference point and might be the only way to verify if it really is the case.
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CPT (Join to see) I can't really see this being an FBI issue and as for it helping with identifying future criminals,that would be a monumental task.Stronger punishment for criminals and animal abusers would seem a more efficient deterrent.
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SSgt Terry P. True, stronger punishments/laws would be an appropriate avenue of approach. However most are considered misdemeanors and don't have any real teeth. In addition small animal breeders are lumped in with large animal breeders under USDA oversight. For an example of what happens to animal legislation see the attached, please read the aftermath and response sections..
https://ballotpedia.org/Missouri_Dog_Breeding_Regulation,_Proposition_B_(2010)
https://ballotpedia.org/Missouri_Dog_Breeding_Regulation,_Proposition_B_(2010)
Missouri Dog Breeding Regulation - Ballotpedia
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SSgt Terry P.
CPT (Join to see) - It is easy to see why the legislation regulating abuse isn't adequate .Those opposing this particular proposition were not really concerned with the welfare of the animals,only their own.
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SSgt Terry P.
Cynthia Croft - My point was this just doesn't seem like an issue for FBI involvement ,there are state bureau investigators in every state,a list in each state could be accessed by the FBI at anytime there was an issue.The only time i could see it being warranted to involve the FBI would be a case of crossing a state line in the offense.
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Tracking is nice, but it would be better to take those offenders to court. In France, laws are really strict about that matter.
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CPT (Join to see) Wouldn't their more focus on domestic violence benefit more people?
Now the FBI is in the 'feel good' business?
Now the FBI is in the 'feel good' business?
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SGM Mikel Dawson
As far as I'm concerned, Dept of Homeland Security took over half of the FBI's job, so they had to do something.
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CSM Charles Hayden I don't think it's about the "feel good" business. The FBI is not getting involved in prosecution, nor have they make animal cruelty a Federal offense. It's just a change in the way tracking occurs. Previously animal abuse was tracked in the "other category" this change puts tracking animal abuse in the "A" category along with rape, burglary, ....
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SGM Mikel Dawson
CPT (Join to see) - Great, there are many people who shouldn't have animals, but then many of them shouldn't have kids!
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This tracking will only work if all offenders could be tracked and not only the ones caught and taken to the authorities. Flawed system.
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I am not sure this is a Federal issue. If I am not mistaken animal cruelty as horrible as it is falls under the states' umbrella. Devoting Federal resources to state issues takes away from other Federal resources.
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It does not mean animal cruelty is a federal crime, that people who abuse animals will be prosecuted differently, or that the FBI intends to get involved or is involved in state or cruelty cases. It is a change in the way they track crime data.
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SGT David T.
CPT (Join to see) - I am just looking at it from a budget standpoint. I think it would be better if the states were mandated to do this as opposed to the Federal government.
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SGM Erik Marquez
SGT David T.
Posted 2 y ago
I am not sure this is a Federal issue. If I am not mistaken animal cruelty as horrible as it is falls under the states' umbrella. Devoting Federal resources to state issues takes away from other Federal resources."
If we were talking enforcement, prosecution I would agree, but thats not what the FBI decided in 2015, starting 1 Jan 2016
It was to "On January 1, the Bureau’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) began collecting detailed data from participating law enforcement agencies on acts of animal cruelty, including gross neglect, torture, organized abuse, and sexual abuse. Before this year, crimes that involved animals were lumped into an “All Other Offenses” category in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Crime in the United States report, a survey of crime data provided by about 18,000 city, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies."
This is nation wide data collection on persons with a data point known to be commonly linked major crimes. That is the FBI's world clearly.
The next question though is, what to do with the data, which in it self is useless if not analyzed and then acted upon. I would hope of the data suggested a specific person was showing signs of larger issues, it would be pushed to the state to further investigate and act upon as needed. But have to wounder if the states would just ignore the pushed data saying "not ours, we did not collect, did not analyze not ours to do anything with, our resources will be expended on leads we produce."
Posted 2 y ago
I am not sure this is a Federal issue. If I am not mistaken animal cruelty as horrible as it is falls under the states' umbrella. Devoting Federal resources to state issues takes away from other Federal resources."
If we were talking enforcement, prosecution I would agree, but thats not what the FBI decided in 2015, starting 1 Jan 2016
It was to "On January 1, the Bureau’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) began collecting detailed data from participating law enforcement agencies on acts of animal cruelty, including gross neglect, torture, organized abuse, and sexual abuse. Before this year, crimes that involved animals were lumped into an “All Other Offenses” category in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Crime in the United States report, a survey of crime data provided by about 18,000 city, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies."
This is nation wide data collection on persons with a data point known to be commonly linked major crimes. That is the FBI's world clearly.
The next question though is, what to do with the data, which in it self is useless if not analyzed and then acted upon. I would hope of the data suggested a specific person was showing signs of larger issues, it would be pushed to the state to further investigate and act upon as needed. But have to wounder if the states would just ignore the pushed data saying "not ours, we did not collect, did not analyze not ours to do anything with, our resources will be expended on leads we produce."
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SGT Jim Arnold
SGT David T. - if it were a state mandated thing I believe we would have 50 different standards and not able to convert to usable data throughout the US. The very least have a federal Standard that all states must follow
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