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Tel Aviv will test dog poop DNA to fine owners who don’t clean up:
Tel Aviv has found an innovative way of dealing with dog owners who don’t clean up after their pets in the city streets — testing the excrement’s DNA and sending a fine to the owner by mail.
The city council on Monday approved a motion setting up a DNA database and stating that dog owners will be required to submit their pets’ genetic details to authorities upon receiving or renewing a license, Hebrew-language media reported.
The validity of current dog licenses will expire six months after the new ruling takes effect, and new licenses won’t be approved unless owners give over the DNA details, the reports said.
The regulations won’t apply to guide dogs or to dogs kept by animal protection organizations.
[...] There were 6,766 calls and inquiries made to the city hall hotline over dog poop left in public spaces in 2020, according to the Ynet news site.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Friday July 16 2021, @07:31PM
Fines are poor motivators. Those with money see it as nothing more than a speed bump, while those that are poor often get trapped in a vicious cycle of debt collection. Local government agencies start seeing the fines as revenue and assuming that revenue will always be there. Which is not a good situation because it leads to government leaders saying that they need to keep the jails full in order to keep the revenue for each jailed person rolling into the county.
You want to stop that shit? Community service. You sentence people to have to spend their weekends either in jail, or performing cleanup work for the county. Make the person who forgot their dog's shit pick up all the shit that can be seen for 8 hours on the next 2 months worth of weekends. That includes all kinds of debris, like cigarette butts and litter. There is always some kind of grunt work that needs to be done, and they will be the ones doing it.
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