{"id":275085,"date":"2025-10-03T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275085\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:15:13","slug":"five-chicago-police-k9s-receive-new-protective-vests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275085\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Chicago police K9s receive new protective vests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Chicago Police Department K9s Bak, Jago, Johny, Ronnie and Sam have new protective vests thanks to a donation from Vested Interest in K9s, Inc., a nonprofit that supports law enforcement dogs nationwide.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The donated vests are bullet- and stab-resistant, and each is U.S.-made, custom fitted, and certified by the National Institute of Justice.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Four of the vests include embroidered tributes to fallen Chicago police K9s.<\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Bak\u2019s vest honors K9 Bravo, who died in 2025.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Jago\u2019s vest is embroidered in memory of K9 Caesar, who died in 1972.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Johny\u2019s vest recognizes K9 Max II, who died in 1986.<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Ronnie\u2019s vest is embroidered in memory of K9 Vito, who died in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Vested Interest in K9s, Inc., founded in 2009, provides protective vests and other resources to K9s across the country.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Since starting, the group has donated more than 6,100 vests, valued at $6.9 million, to dogs in all 50 states. It is all made possible thanks to both private and corporate donations.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The program is open to dogs at least 20 months old, as well as those with expired vests. Nationwide, about 30,000 dogs serve in police roles.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Each vest costs about $1,800 and weighs between 4 and 5 pounds. A $1,050 donation sponsors one vest, and each comes with a five-year warranty.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">More information on donations and volunteer opportunities is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/vik9s.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.vik9s.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story came from the Chicago Police Department and Vested Interest in K9s, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/organization\/cpd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Police Department<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; Chicago Police Department K9s Bak, Jago, Johny, Ronnie and Sam have new protective vests thanks to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":275086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,12634,6082,5386,1818,50,12632,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-275085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-cpd","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-organization","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115311366892878223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}