Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

To: supercat
In search and rescue missions, the dog's handlers don't want false positives

What makes you believe bomb and drug dog handlers want false positives? I just can't see what there is to gain. If I'm a bird hunter and my bird dog is making false points one of us is doing something wrong and neither of us is going to be happy until the problem is remedied.

133 posted on 03/01/2013 5:03:24 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 132 | View Replies ]


To: Alaska Wolf; supercat; Mr Rogers; PapaBear3625; Cyber Liberty; dirtboy; JustSayNoToNannies; All
What makes you believe bomb and drug dog handlers want false positives?

Because a dog with a certificate not worth the paper it's printed on is an effective loophole to abrogate our 4th Amendment rights. The dog "Bono" on whose performane the recent USSC decision rested only found drugs 25% of the times he alerted and yet passed certification by his department with flying colors.

Right now there is a lawsuit by Nevada Highway Patrol officers that their superiors are using "trick ponies" in their canine units...dogs trained to alert on cue from the handler, not because fhey've scented contraband...resulting in unlawful searches and seizures for the agency's financial benefit.

134 posted on 03/01/2013 5:33:53 PM PST by fattigermaster (Train for life in prison because they are stacking the bricks and setting the bars around you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 133 | View Replies ]

To: Alaska Wolf
What makes you believe bomb and drug dog handlers want false positives? I just can't see what there is to gain

Gee, I cannot imagine why.

Other than the big bucks to be gained by confiscation.

138 posted on 03/01/2013 6:06:42 PM PST by dirtboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 133 | View Replies ]

To: Alaska Wolf
What makes you believe bomb and drug dog handlers want false positives?

Because the fact that a car doesn't contain drugs doesn't mean it won't have something else of interest. For example, cops may know that people driving to or from a flea market are likely to have large amounts of cash. Drug-dog alert plus large amount of cash equals free money for the cop's department. Some victims may successfully sue to get their money back, but in most cases the robbers will get to keep it.

158 posted on 03/02/2013 11:01:15 AM PST by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 133 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson