More Than a Third of Baton Rouge Police Department’s K-9 Bites Involve Juveniles

Between 2017 and 2019, 146 people were bitten by Baton Rouge PD K-9s—53 of them were 17 or younger. This is the highest rate of any department that provided bite and age data. Five of the 13 departments that provided such data reported no juvenile bites at all.