Baton Rouge K-9s Bite at Extremely High Rates
The Baton Rouge Police Department’s dogs bite people at a higher rate than those at any of the departments in the country’s 20 largest cities. Between 2017-19, the department’s K-9s bit 146 people, a rate of 66 per 100,000 people for the three-year period. The rate is more than double that of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police, which has the highest bite rate of the departments in the 20 largest cities.
Analysis of use of force data from police departments, population data from the Census Bureau.
Per-capita rates use the latest five-year census population estimates and are approximations. City police departments in Los Angeles, Houston and San Antonio may include serious non-bite injuries in their K-9 use-of-force records. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department data for bites in 2019 include numbers through January 23, 2020.