For years, the FBI has filed animal abuse under the label "other" along with a variety of lesser crimes, making cruelty hard to find, hard to count and hard to track. The bureau announced this month that it would make animal cruelty a Group A felony with its own category - the same way crimes like homicide, arson and assault are listed. [More]You guys have exemptions, right...?
[Via Florida Guy]
2 comments:
A little help here; how does fbi make animal cruelty a felony offense? Does fbi now write law?
As I read this, they are simply categorizing existing felonies into four classifications to provide more specific reporting requirements. The only reason I found this noteworthy to call out is because of the additional link--just the other day, we saw a story of a police chief who beat a little boy's pet chicken to death with a shovel.
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