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Letters & Editorials
Praise for policing animal cruelty
Newsday - August 1, 2007
Making the enforcement of animal cruelty laws mainstream is an idea whose
time has come. Kudos to Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy for assigning a
detective in each precinct to oversee animal cruelty issues ["Pet police on
patrol," News, July 25]. SPCAs are generally too small to handle the number of
cases that come before them.
In New York City the ASPCA often has been criticized for not doing an
adequate job in humane law enforcement. It has only 15 officers to serve a city
of some 8 million people. They constantly make excuses for not getting the job
done, but the truth is with such limited capabilities, it would be a Herculean
feat. The city - its people and animals - deserves much better.
Animal cruelty laws and enforcement must be taken seriously. There is a
precedent in the city for specialized units for housing, transit and the mounted
police. Why not an animal cruelty unit?
Elizabeth Forel
Editor's note: The writer is a founding member of the
Coalition to Ban Horse
Drawn Carriages.
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