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The Boise Police Department said it will hire an outside expert to evaluate its K-9 Unit after officers used a dog to drag a suspect they had just shot toward them.
Boise’s Office of Police Accountability, tasked to review police shootings, cleared officers of any wrongdoing when they shot an armed robbery suspect, Adam Cook, in September 2024. But in the OPA’s 14-page report, it raised questions about officers’ use of a police dog…