The Tracking Animal Cruelty Crimes Act (S. 2439), recently introduced by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), directs the U.S. Attorney General to modify the FBI's crime data reporting systems to list cruelty to animals as a separate offense category.
Research clearly demonstrates that there is a close association between animal abuse and family violence, as well as other crimes. In addition, animal abuse frequently is one of the first signals of a child, and family, at risk. Without accurate tracking, there is no way to access important information such as trends or the relationship to demographic and geographic data, on which to base policy development and resource allocation.
TAKE ACTION
Please make brief, polite phone calls right away to your two U.S. Senators -- Bob Casey at (202) 224-6324 and Arlen Specter at (202) 224-4254 -- and ask them to co-sponsor this critical piece of legislation.
No comments:
Post a Comment