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.