K-9 dog dies after being in patrol car with broken air conditioning, police say

Something about that story doesn't pass the sniff test!

I know it is hot in Atlanta (I've lived there).
I know car interior temperatures climb quickly in the hot sun, especially since Cobb County PD uses black cars.

BUT according to this story, everything was working perfectly, and the temperature in the car was fully cooled at 1PM when the officer last checked on his dog. Then just 45 minutes later the dog had died in the hot car, where first the air conditioning had failed, then the temperature sensor for the backup system also failed.

That's a lot of failures in a short time.

At best that strongly suggests that the backup system already wasn't working and had not been tested at the start of summer.

Equipment failure or no equipment failure, any civilian would be facing animal cruelty charges over this.

LTC Eugene Chu what a loss. A highly trained police dog gone. There wasn’t a way to ensure the vehicle was working 100% and the handler was required to keep checking in. The back up systems are supposed to be in place and in operation when the call goes out. A traffic stop may only take a fifteen minutes but that’s long enough for the heat inside to rise and kill. Not just police dogs but children and elderly as well. May the dog rest in peace. His mission is over and number signed off,

Bad news.