{"id":57058,"date":"2019-03-26T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=57058"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:50","slug":"coulter-why-animal-cruelty-should-become-a-matter-for-dedicated-police-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/03\/coulter-why-animal-cruelty-should-become-a-matter-for-dedicated-police-units\/","title":{"rendered":"COULTER: Why animal cruelty should become a matter for dedicated police units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor in Labour Studies, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/why-animal-cruelty-should-become-a-matter-for-dedicated-police-units\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in the\u00a0<em>National Post<\/em><\/a> about the need for police enforcement of animal cruelty laws.<\/p>\n<p>Coulter writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Who should enforce animal cruelty laws and how? This is an important question that deserves careful consideration. It has serious implications for vulnerable animals, the safety of front-line officers, victims of domestic violence and public safety overall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finding the best possible answer to this question has become urgent in my home province of Ontario. For a century, animal cruelty investigations have been offloaded to charities. Only crimes against animals have been treated this way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But that\u2019s about to change. The OSPCA has announced it will end its law enforcement work. The era of charity-based animal cruelty enforcement in Ontario is over.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In January, I launched a survey open to all adult residents in Ontario in order to take the pulse of the public at this critical time. More than 20,000 people completed the survey, a significant number and a powerful comment on the level of public interest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The findings, along with detailed but succinct analysis and other key data, are assembled in the report A More Humane and Safer Ontario: The Future of Animal Cruelty Investigations. It is freely available at stopanimalcruelty.ca.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The results are clear. People view fighting animal cruelty as a public responsibility. They want crimes against animals to be taken more seriously by our government, law enforcers, Crown attorneys and judges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/why-animal-cruelty-should-become-a-matter-for-dedicated-police-units\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Coulter, Associate Professor in Labour Studies, wrote a piece recently published in the\u00a0National Post about the need for police enforcement of animal cruelty laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[110,3126,5513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57060,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57058\/revisions\/57060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}