May/June 2012 Cop Talk
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many police departments, particularly the smaller and more peaceful
ones, most of the rounds fired in the line of duty involve “humane
destruction” of injured or dangerous animals. The rabid skunk reported
by a homeowner, the deer lying plaintively in the road with its spine
shattered after it ran in front of an automobile, or the snarling dog
charging a cop who is serving a warrant.
In the Ayoob Files column in this issue, it discusses the Zanesville,
Ohio incident in which the local sheriff’s department had to euthanize
49 exotic animals that had been released upon their community by an
angry man just before he blew his own brains out. Some of those officers
were hunters — one responded to the scene with his personal Remington
700 in 7mm Magnum — and did good work with it.
However, the cops found no sport in it. I spoke to the Sheriff who ran
the sadly necessary containment operation, Matt Lutz, and several of the
deputies, and to a man they found it grimly depressing. Not to mention
dangerous. There were 35 lions and tigers that had to be accounted for. A
male Bengal tiger can reach 580 pounds, and a male African lion
averages 400. When I was in lion country in Africa, the professional
hunters I was with favored the .458 Magnum with 510-grain softnose
bullets. The lawmen that dealt with the Zanesville situation primarily
had 55-grain .223 ammo. These cops definitely got their daily adrenaline
requirement — but they didn’t get any sport out of it at all.
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