Dear Sheriff Bianco,I’ve been quite repelled by the asinine Assembly bill to ban the use of police canines by California police agencies for the arrest and apprehension of criminal suspects and for crowd control. I am certain that you find this bill quite disturbing as well.If this utterly stupid and shortsighted Assembly Bill 742 is indeed passed, then I suggest that as sheriff you merely trump this bill and raise the political ante by reaching for a new law enforcement tool. I would hope that you would seriously consider procuring and deploying robotic dogs as possible replacements for any retired sheriff’s canines that may occur due to a possible passage of AB 742.The NYPD recently reacquired a robotic dog as yet another tool to their law enforcement tool kit. The naive
