LA police dogs accused of racism for only biting African-Americans and Latinos!

POLICE officers in America regularly face questions about racism within law enforcement and now it seems their dogs may be at fault too.

BITES: A report has shown a tendency for LA police dogs to bite ethnic minority victims [GETTY]

A report on the Canine Special Detail of Los Angeles' Sheriff's Department (LASD) has revealed a dramatic rise in the number of ethnic minority individuals to be bitten by police pooches since 2004.

In the first six months of 2013 every single victim of a bite from a LASD dog was either African-American or Latino.

Records indicate the number of Latino bite victims has risen 30 per cent between 2004 and 2012 while the number of African-American's suffering a bite has gone up by 33 per cent.

SUSPENDED: One police canine was suspended in 2004 for showing a propensity to bite black children [GETTY]

“In the first six months of 2013 every single victim of a bite from a LASD dog was either African-American or Latino”

During the period covered in the report, the largely black areas of Century, City of Industry, Compton, Lakewood and South LA saw more dog bites than all of the LASD's other districts combined.

This is not the first occasion where police dogs have been accused of targeting specific ethnic groups.

In 2004 a Pennsylvania police dog called Dolpho was suspended from duty for displaying a desire to bite black children. The Daily Star report.