2017-12-05 22:36
This week Crawford County, Georgia police killed a couple's dog, forced them to decapitate it and then take the severed head to the local Health department. Police were concerned the dog, n… Read More
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This is the first nationwide database tracking police shootings of animals. Our blog is for people whose lives have been impacted by Puppycide, and for the volunteers who work to tell their story.
2017-10-20 19:25
This morning, NPR reported the results of a study performed from June 2015 to last December 2016 conducted by Anita Ravishankar, a researcher with the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Depar… Read More
2017-08-28 17:13
As part of our current efforts to completely rebuild our web properties, Puppycide Database Project has made numerous major changes to our blog. Thank you for bearing with us as we've been w… Read More
2017-08-20 20:20
Since our founding, the Puppycide Database Project has used a variety of cutting edge technologies to allow the public access to records related to police violence for the first time. Withou… Read More
2017-08-15 16:55
Earlier this month, United States District Court Judge George Caram Steeh III dismissed a lawsuit filed in 2016 by Nikita Smith and Kevin Thomas, whose dogs were killed by police during a vi… Read More
2017-04-06 16:55
On March 31st, Trump Administration Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo ordering an "immediate review" of Department of Justice activities involving local law enforcement, including… Read More
2016-12-27 19:16
The Sixth District Court of Appeals in Grand Rapids, Michigan has decided that officers within the Battle Creek Police Department, the police department itself and the City of Battle Creek h… Read More
2016-12-27 17:25
Twenty months ago, the Puppycide Database Project published an article about a little-known agency within the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Ser… Read More
2016-12-20 18:15
Despite the antagonism that is sparked between police departments and animal-welfare advocates in the aftermath of a highly publicized shooting of an animal by a police officer, both camps t… Read More
2016-11-07 19:28
Over the past few years, the use of cameras worn by police officers is growing fast. Police reform activists rallied around body cameras as a tool for increasing police accountability in the… Read More
2016-09-20 15:12
Over the past several months multiple news outlets have quoted the Puppycide Database Project as "estimating" US police shoot 500 dogs a day.
So far we are aware of one major news outlet ma… Read More
2016-09-20 14:11
The Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services is hosting a forum tomorrow (September 21st) in Washington DC to "bring together law enforcement leaders and subjec… Read More
2016-08-01 14:07
Earlier this year a powerful short film titled "Just a Dog" premiered at the Hot Docs film festival. The film, directed by filmmaker Andrea Scott, is a compelling illustration of the devasta… Read More
2016-07-15 17:58
Social media has been an important part of the Puppycide Database Project since our inception. We aren't concerned with going "viral" or getting a bazillion followers; but we are interested… Read More
2016-01-06 19:21
We need your help, Puppycide readers.
After over a year and a half of research, Puppycide Database Project is ready to publish our findings to date. Our research has uncovered a variety of… Read More
2015-12-29 20:52
In-depth report from regional newspaper finds systemic abuses, excessive force, and striking evidence that a horrific attack on an unarmed teenage boy by a police canine was premeditated
In… Read More
2015-12-18 18:07
Photography is Not a Crime (PINAC) is an independent media organization that focuses on investigative reporting of law enforcement. PINAC, first founded by photographer Carlos Miller in Sout… Read More
2015-12-17 19:03
Over the past week, the Puppycide Database Project has published some 13,000 words as part of our multi-part series, Statistics are misleading 100% of the time. The purpose of our series was… Read More
2015-12-16 03:35
Welcome to the fourth article in Puppycide Database Project's ongoing series, "Statistics are Misleading 100% of the Time". In this article, we pick up where we left off from Part Three in o… Read More
2015-12-14 17:37
NOTE: This article contains a photograph that shows a dog's corpse, and video of police shooting dogs. Although the images do not show graphic injuries, reader discretion is advised.
On Thu… Read More
2015-12-13 21:05
The Puppycide Database Project has now implemented a project management software platform for our volunteers, researchers and other colleagues. The platform is hosted at project.puppycidedb… Read More
2015-12-11 20:32
Welcome to Part Three of the Puppycide Database Project's ongoing investigation series, "Statistics are Misleading 100% of the Time". In Part One of this series, we discussed how important s… Read More
2015-12-10 19:13
This post is Part Two of Puppycide Database Project's ongoing series "Statistics are Misleading 100% of the Time", in which we review - and ultimately debunk - several statistics about polic… Read More
2015-12-09 21:36
Part Two and Part Three of this series is now available!
Numbers are everywhere.
4 out of 5 dentists agree that we should be buying more chewing gum. 55% of voters prefer Candidate X to C… Read More
2015-12-09 16:50
Puppycide Database Project is pleased to announce a new feature called "In Their Own Words". Since we began researching...Posted by Puppycide Database Project on Wednesday, December… Read More
2015-12-08 16:55
UPDATE: In this article, initially published on December 8th, we discuss what had been reported as two fatal dog attacks within a 60 mile radius within a one week period, and how those attac… Read More
2015-12-08 16:55
UPDATE: In this article, initially published on December 8th, we discuss what had been reported as two fatal dog attacks within a 60 mile radius within a one week period, and how those attac… Read More
2015-12-06 22:23
Earlier this year Puppycide Database Project was listed by NewsMax as the #1 website "Dedicated to Dogs Killed by Police."
NewsMax is one of the most widely visited news sites in the worl… Read More
2015-12-03 16:53
Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year old man from South Carolina, shot and killed several people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado on November 27th. The shocking murder has become a lightni… Read More
2015-12-03 16:53
Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year old man from South Carolina, shot and killed several people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado on November 27th. The shocking murder has become a lightni… Read More
2015-12-03 15:06
From yesterday's Baltimore Sun:
"The FBI will begin tracking cases of animal cruelty nationally in 2016, a move advocates hope will bring more attention to the crime among law enforceme… Read More
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