Looks a horrible situation, but a clean shoot. I don't know what the officers could have done here.

Like a lot of bad situations, a lot of officer involved dog shootings are more the result of putting officers (or officers putting themselves) into positions where they don't have any good options. If a cop knocks down my door, he's going to get 100 lbs of Akita in his face, and he's going to have to shoot her. If he knocks on the door and announces himself, there's going to be a lot of barking, but I'll grab her by the collar and put her in her crate before anything bad can happen.

With as often as officers come into contact with violent dogs, versus how often they come into armored gunfights, I wonder if some training and dog warden equipment in the trunk might not be as useful as a squad rifle.