Many of these dogs will "alert" when they know the handler wants them to alert - a well attributed phenomenon the USSC ignored the last time they dealt with the issue of police drug dogs.
Yes. That is exactly what I meant by “well-trained”.
I agree. I believe their was a case in AZ where the dog alerted and the cop put the driver thru a cavity search and turned up nothing.
True. Many more dogs will alert on command more often than they will alert on a sniff.
My kids’ private school started using drug dogs last year. They practiced using them during the summer while my kids were in a theater camp. They alerted on my daughter’s bag and they emptied her bag. Without asking permission. She walked in and all of her stuff was out for all the kids to see. She was embarassed. I was pissed off. She keeps advil in her purse because she has focal dystonia and tendonitis.
This is absolutely true, and renders the entire argument moot.
These dogs merely give the cops an excuse to do whatever they want, which is trample our rights. Some of these dogs have a failure rate higher than 50% ! How is that even possible?
It is patently unconstitutional, and an example of the police state