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Loretta Claiborne recalled growing up by the Parkway projects and watching as the police would sweep through the neighborhood with the dogs, threatening people. “My mom always told me if you see a police officer with a dog, don’t pet that dog,” said Claiborne, now a world-renowned Special Olympian.
When members of the Black community protested the use of police dogs, then-Mayor John Snyder who, according to one observer, governed “as if the 20th Century had never taken place” responded by increasing the number of dogs employed by police to menace the community.
The use of the dogs was among the many factors that led to violence in the streets of York in summers of 1968 and 1969. The police K-9 Corps was disbanded in 1973.
York County police departments adopt #8CantWait to mitigate misconduct
The campaign stresses eight ways that police departments can reduce incidents of brutality.
Two prominent York County police departments say the principles in the #8CantWait campaign were already in practice, either formally or informally, but that they see merit in officially recognizing them.
Campaign Zero conceived eight police reform tenets with the goal of reducing police brutality:
Ban choke holds and strangle holds
Require de-escalation techniques
Duty to intervene
Require use-of-force continuum
Require comprehensive reporting
Last month, York City Police Commissioner Mike Muldrow posted on Crimewatch that his department was among many around the country to recognize #8CantWait.