York Dispatch
It's been 50 years since the York City Police Department stopped using K-9 dogs, and with good reason. The dogs — doing the bidding of their officer handlers — terrorized Black residents and helped foment York's 1968 and 1969 race riots.
"We just weren't supposed to broach that subject anymore," Police Commissioner Michael Muldrow told The York Dispatch. "When I was a kid and involved in York City Police Department culture under my dad (retired Officer Thomas "Mo" Muldrow), it had always been an unwritten rule that there weren't supposed to be any kind of dogs … because of how dogs were used in the past. Or misused."