#nypd-k9-teams

#nypd-k9-teams

"As our Dog Breath Sniffer, you'll be responsible for filtering for the best (and worst) smelling dog breath in the city. We need someone brave, bold, and nosy (literally) to get up close and personal with NYC's finest canines."

There are few things everyone can rally behind as much as finding a lost dog. But what if that mission is actually a workaround for mass surveillance? That's the question many people are asking following a Super Bowl commercial from Ring, Amazon's doorbell camera and home security brand. The 30-second video shows a series of missing dog posters and claims that 10 million pets go missing every year.

A security guard monitoring the parking lot saw the couple casing cars in the Flatbush Ave. lot near Avenue U in Mill Basin and called police.

Investigators say the pattern, which mostly targeted older residents and a few neighborhood businesses, unfolded between late December and early February. No arrests have been made so far, and the probe is still very much active, according to authorities.

A group of armed robbers forced their way into an East New York home near Vandalia and Fountain avenues just after 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 13, after a woman knocked claiming to be from a cleaning company, police said. According to investigators, the suspects headed directly to a bedroom after getting inside, where they grabbed high-end jewelry worth roughly $118,000, as well as a purse, wallets and credit cards.

The dogs come to be judged. The owners and handlers come to uphold breed standards. And, almost as reliably as the movie references and the best-in-show ribbon, Peta arrives ready to dominate the conversation. If there is one certainty about the Super Bowl of canines, it's that the protest will share the stage with the pageantry. Westminster is an annual collision of tradition, spectacle and dissent, and Peta has become exceptionally good at owning that moment.

As I walked to meet K-9 Ultra, a five-year-old explosive-detection canine and one of the finalists of the 15th Annual American Humane Hero Dog Awards, I ran through my list of questions in my head: How do you stay so focused during a mission, even in the presence of clear environmental distractions like squirrels and birds? Do you always comply with your handler's commands? And Is that behavior transferable to my civilian dogs?