When the police brought in two dogs to help flush a trapped burglar out of a building in Baltimore, he leaped out of a second-story window, breaking both ankles. "I looked at the dogs and I looked at the pavement." he explained afterwards, "and I decided the pavement was safer."
The 100-lb. members of the Baltimore police department's K-9 Corps have a demoralizing effect on lawbreakers. Last year the three dozen dogs were credited with assisting in close to 500 arrests, but their greatest value, says Inspector Leo T. Kelly, is the "deterrent effect" of their mere presence on the streets. In...
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