Laws for thee. But not for Cops.

[pknopp]

It was in there long enough to die. If citizens are expected to know and get arrested when they do not the police should not be held to a different standard.

You do not leave a dog in a car on a hot day at all.

Until a citizen leaves a dog in a car with the sort of warning system the police vehicle had, and that system fails to function, the comparison fails.

If you continue to want to argue that the police are too dumb to understand what everyone else does, I suppose you can.

again, without the details of this case, such as how long the dog was in the car, or what sorts of other precautions the officer may have taken, making a judgement about what happened is foolish. Should it turn out that the officer left the dog in the car for hours, without water, air flow, or air conditioning, simply relying on the warning system, that would be one thing. If the officer was gone for 20 minutes, with water left for the dog and the windows opened some, that would be different. The details are important.

If the windows had been opened the dog doesn't die.

I guess maybe you are too dumb to understand that opening windows doesn't prevent a car from heating up, huh?

Or perhaps, just perhaps, what you think "everyone knows" is not necessarily something everyone knows, or even necessarily true?

For example: Heat Stress From Enclosed Vehicles: Moderate Ambient Temperatures Cause Significant Temperature Rise in Enclosed Vehicles
HEAT EXPOSURE IN AN ENCLOSED AUTOMOBILE

Maybe you should wait for the details of the case before passing judgement. After all, your last post indicates that you might leave a dog in a car with the windows opened and assume it couldn't overheat and die.

If "everyone" doesn't know it, you can't charge anyone. The officer knew.

It must be nice to know what a complete stranger did or did not know. Of course, considering you thought you knew something that turned out to be false just a couple of posts back, maybe your judgement is suspect....

If you want to argue that cops are not aware of this, go for it.