The Season Pass

    The name Michael Vick, once synonymous with Atlanta Falcons football, will now live on in history as the most prominent figure to date in the dogfighting underworld.
    Of course by now you have seen the news and heard about the heinous accounts of abuse to the pit bulls.
    Vick admitted to dispensing money for gambling on dogfights and assisting in the execution of six to eight pit bulls.
    So if a well-known athlete such as Vick can be so deeply involved in the undertakings of dogfighting society, could it be that there is a much bigger problem than one particular athlete with more money than he knows what to do with?
    The answer, simply put, is yes.
    In fact, police know that there is dogfighting going on locally, very possibly right here in Baldwin County.
    Tom Davis, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent and professor of criminal justice at GCSU, said that dogfighting is not uncommon in this area.
    “They are good at covering themselves,” Davis said. “Better, even, than drug dealers are.”
    Davis said that dogfighters usually have their own system within rings that they use very well to cover their tracks.
    “They will call each other and say to meet at this time, and then call back a little while later with a new time, and just keep doing it until they know we won’t catch on,” said Davis.
    He went on to explain how vicious these dogs are bread to be, explaining that GBI agents will not even enter the pens the dogs are stored in to search properties.
    Even Whoopi Goldberg acknowledged that dogfighting is part of a Deep South culture, last week on “The View.”
    So, what has to be done to stop this?
    The first step has to be education. There has to be something that teaches people, starting at a young age that, like drugs and murder, dogfighting is a serious crime.
    Hopefully the Vick case will shed some light on the subject and open the eyes of people involved in what appears to be less of an isolated incident and more of a widespread cultural problem.   

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