fuddy...
LEO is very involved, very motivated to catch and dispatch these killers gone.
Please don't make it seem no one cares or is doing anything because you are wrong, very wrong. This is a huge priority to catch them..
The communities are working closely together, watching each others animals, alerting to unfamiliar activities, helping with surveillance and better fencing...
Being a vigilante is not encouraged because of the innocent it could hurt who happened by...
The state of Florida is 65,755 square miles. 500 miles long and 160 miles wide...
That is one big area for law enforcement agencies to patrol, to cover and protect from "poachers/killers" besides also normal police work. Animals have been targeted, stolen and killed from coast to coast, end to end..
The horse industry is in the billions of dollars a year for this state..you bet with that number this is a priority.
We have special units of LEO for ag crimes, but it isn't like a thousand extra LEO have been added.
Yes, LEO are asking for assistance from the community and that assistance is pouring in...
Each lead, each piece of shared needs checked out...
When you have suspicious activity reported in more than 200+ locations a day..
As for punishment...they don't care.
The law is not playing games with punishment if caught. Severe it shall be.
LEO's know where the meat is going, who is consuming, how much is paid for it...
Money is a huge motivator in crime, and there is a tremendous amount of money in horse meat that people are willing to take that chance of getting caught.
It is not one person or 2 persons but many who are doing this...a ring.
Catching them in the act...well, they better hope it is LEO's!
But please, don't think this is not a priority, that citizens are not taking a stand and that laws are not waiting to be applied...
The slip-up is coming as the pressure is increased...within seconds they have been missed, but the clues are numerous and mounting leading law to their doorstep.
Sadly though, it isn't the first time and won't be the last that this occurs here as it does in other areas of this nation. Where certain nationality, religious beliefs and cultures congregate so do their... choices is a very distasteful word but fits. And with that follows the pull of money paid for illegal goods in this nation.
hlg...
(LEO is abbreviated for Law Enforcement Organization)