FBI to start tracking animal cruelty in 2016. How can tracking animal cruelty help?

Specifically they are going to track:
– Simple or gross neglect
– Intentional abuse and torture
– Organized abuse, including dogfighting and cockfighting
– Animal sexual abuse

Studies show young people who kill and torture animals often tend to do violent crime against people later in life. Reviews of the lives of violent criminals such as Jeffery Dahmer, Ted Bundy and the like have shown that they began abusing insects and animals early in life and that this trend went unnoticed and unreported or regarded as unimportant during their youth. Another interesting fact is that 70% of school shooters abused animals prior to the event.

Did you know? "The standard diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders lists cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorders."

Animal abuse will now be placed in the same category of offense as crimes like kidnapping, homicide and rape. Hopefully this will aid in predicting and derailing violent acts. Getting help for someone who does this at an early age could be a deterrent to more serious acts later in life.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/article47178385.html