Why the FBI Now Categorizes Animal Cruelty as a Class A Felony http://bit.ly/1oxNo3A
The importance of protecting animals from cruelty inflicted by people, who seem to disregard the fact that animals are sentient beings similar to humans, has been validated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), which has now added animal cruelty to its list of Class A felonies.
As of the beginning of 2016, the FBI started logging cases of animal abuse in their Incident-Based Reporting System where it keeps records of other felonies, such as homicide and arson.
A big motivating factor behind the effort to track animal abusers is the link between animal cruelty and every type of violent and non-violent crime.
“Regardless of whether people care about how animals are treated, people — like legislators and judges — care about humans, and they can’t deny the data.” ~ Natasha Dolezal, director of the animal law program in the Center for Animal Law Studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon
Dolezal is referring to mounting research regarding the link between crime against animals and crime at large. An example are the studies conducted by the New York State Humane Association which have revealed:
“Nearly all violent criminals and violent psychiatric patients were abused as children, and nearly all started committing animal cruelty at an early age.
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