Drug dogs false alert over 200 times

A new study at UC Davis has found that drug dogs very often find drugs that aren't there, due to subtle cues from their handlers that make the dogs find false positives to please them.

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not surprising.. but really disappointing. i thought law enforcement was supposed to keep us safe and not lie to us.. :toilet:

 

If they get the dogs sniffing at an early age, they gonna forget for life.

 

wow, pretty lame. I guess the only foolproof way to train a drug dog is to get it high and make it genuinely like pot

 

THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE "STUDYING" AT UC DAVIS??

dont they have anything better to research, like mabye cures for diseases! JEEZ

 

i highly doubt the entire college is studying this ONE subject..

don't be ridiculous.

 

So if the cop thinks you're a "drug holding n**ger" you're getting that false positive.

 

its not the college i was poking at

its the fact they feel the need to study something like this instead of putting the time into some benefit for humanity.

 

they train some dog were I work. only using the warehouse .. Ive told a few the cops, them dogs couldnt smell bob marley at 2ft.. They said" they (dogs)act on suspicion of the drug courier and can pick up fear more than dope..

 

i'm sure it will benefit when the realize that drug dogs are not a reliable resource when it comes to finding drugs.

if they are wrong so often then they are a waste of time and money for us all.

 

What a silly thing to say.

Of course it's good for humanity to expose fraud that spends tax money to falsely imprison people.

 

From their point of view it's not a waste of time when they can base convictions and the resulting confiscation of property "justified" by the convictions on the premise that the dog's work is fail-safe. They are only a waste of time when the only objective is to get to the truth- which doesn't seem to be the ultimate goal of criminal justice. "Blind justice" likely applies only when the facts are inconvenient for ambitious prosecutors, cops, and judges eager to establish themselves as "tough on crime". The thing is that without "crime" they would have no livelihood.

 

When I was younger I had a dog that was an ex police dog. It's name was Hendrix, seriously. It was one of the best dogs I've ever had. Very well behaved and very good with kids (I was only 6 when we got him).

 

This doesn't mean they're badly behaved dogs, they're only doing what their master taught them to do to make him happy.... They can be anywhere on the spectrum of dog behavior and personality and still falsely alert because of bad cops and bad training.

 

they have said the dogs trained where I work, look for bombs and not so much drugs.. they also use them for search and rescue. Cant blame the dogs though..



I had a GS puppy like this one named "lil star" cause it had a star pattern on it belly.. It died from some poisoning or genetics.. dont really know.

 

There are lots of sniffer dogs around the airport.

 

I didn't say they're badly behaved dogs. I was simply stating that the one I lived with was well behaved.

 

In regards to my earlier post, drug dogs can be extremely reliable. In berkeley I was walking in the park with a group of friends, all of whom could have easily been holding. A tiny dog came up and started trying to get in to my bag. The owner then told me that he didn't even train the dog, he just smoked it out a lot. This dog seriously wanted my stash and would eye the bowl eagerly every time we passed it

 

Isn't it ironic that they use beings with an altered sense of reality, compared to humans, to track down people who use substances that alter their senses? Think about it....

And I vaguely remember reading once about a sniffer dog that apparently sniffed cocaine or something on a driver's money, plus the driver was carrying a lot of money in his wallet but nothing else. And the cops took most of it without giving it back. The driver never had any cocaine, ever.

 

schwat?

 

Dogs experience reality different than we do. So does every other animal. Cops are using dogs for their sense of smell to bust people.