life to help train and protect police and military dogs. jimmy helps police department k-9 units around the country. often posing as a bad guy. a dei could to help train the dogs and get them used to wearing these vests. in some situations, police dogs are sent in when it s too risky for a police officer. the dogs find the suspect and grab on to him. the police officer s valuable time to apprehend them. volunteering as a dei could is not glamourous work. jimmy spends a lot of his time getting bitten by dogs over and over again. this dog is wearing a custom made bullet proof vest that spike s k-9 fund got for him. it s lightweight so it doesn t slow him down, but it will protect him. it can save his life as well as the life of his human handler.
we ve helped. their office is jimmy s kitchen table and to keep overhead low. jimmy says more than 80% of the money donated goes to dog s vests and medical expenses which sometimes aren t covered by local police departments. he s gotten vests for at least 288 police dogs so far. by the end of the year, d like he d like to be able to say he s outfitted at least 500 police dogs. last month iet up with jimmy when he wasking with the nor foel foal being police k-9 unit. anderson, come in here. listen to this dog, man. see how he keeps biting to get deeper. one of their police dogs krueger was shot to death in 2016. and through spike s k-9 fund i was able to help get bullet proof vest for police dogs in the area. this guy right here was named in honor of anderson cooper, that s a.c.
to be able to say he s outfitted at least 500 police dogs. last month i met one jimmy when he was working with the norfolk police k-9 unit. anderson, come on in here. listen to this dog, man. see how he keeps biting to get deeper. one of their police dogs krueger was shot to death in 2016 and through spike s k-9 fund i was able to help get bullet proof vest for a number of police dogs in the area. officer mcany of was krueger s partner. this guy was named in honor of anderson cooper, that s a.c. thanks to spike s k-9 fund, his new k-9 partner has the vet that krueger did not. what s cool is he s wearing the vest that you provided for the dogs. that s a bullet proof vest and he wears it to work every day. jimmy somehow convinced me to suit up so i could experience the power and displichb these
we can t police the internet with the millions of comments that are happening every day and the rhetoric seems to be ratcheted up daily worse and worse all the time. so it s you know, the secret service has their hands full. the sheer volume of the rhetoric and these kind of comments, you know, you look back and even to take something where you can track some of these people that are making the comments and then track them through, you know, criminal histories in the past, even that would be so onerous as to be almost it s mind boggling. as a law enforcement officer to think that an agency would be charged with trying to do that, it s mind boggling to be able to do that. it does sound so difficult and yet prevention is crucial. i think you both touched on some potential solutions. randy and bobby, thank you both. coming up, what is it like to be donald trump s second in command? up next, the awkward moment that vice president mike pence has put up with. you re live in the cnn
this group in a plane with me are mostly volunteers. we re all here for a fund-raiser for jimmy hatch s charity, spike s canine fund, which raises money to help protect the lives of police dogs buying them custom made bullet proof police vests. she s fast. she s an athlete. reporter: i first met jimmy two years ago when i interviewed him for a story. he served in the navy for 26 years. most of it with multiple tours in afghanistan, iraq, elsewhere. jimmy doesn t like to make a big deal of it, but he s seen a lot of combat in his life and he s done some remarkable things to help protect us. on his last mission in afghanistan in 2009, jimmy was critically wouldn tnded shot in leg by searching for army private bo berghdal.