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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 1465786" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>I think you missed the point of the article. I very specifically didn't say the officers are doing anything less than their best, but rather are <em>unconsciously</em> giving cues to the dogs.</p><p></p><p>As to "the average law abiding American" having nothing to worry about, read the second quote again: on average, <em>more than half</em> the people on whom a dog alerts <em>are</em> law-abiding; the rate for Hispanics is worse, at <em>almost three quarters</em>. In the controlled test, the dog-handler teams failed at <em>ten times</em> the rate they succeeded.</p><p></p><p>Even though <em>you</em> may not mind having the police paw through your belongings, it doesn't follow that the rest of us don't. While I'm sure that they're not doing it to get their jollies, and they're doing it because they earnestly suspect that there's evidence of a crime to be found, that doesn't change the fact that such suspicion is manifestly unreasonable in the face of current research.</p><p></p><p>We get annoyed when the TV weatherman misses a forecast periodically, or when the ref at the football game blows even a single call, but here we have a case where the State (through its agents, the police) is wrong literally more often than it is right as a result of not understanding how its tools work, and we're willing to write it off, along with the infringement upon our Fourth Amendment rights.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 1465786, member: 13624"] I think you missed the point of the article. I very specifically didn't say the officers are doing anything less than their best, but rather are [I]unconsciously[/I] giving cues to the dogs. As to "the average law abiding American" having nothing to worry about, read the second quote again: on average, [I]more than half[/I] the people on whom a dog alerts [I]are[/I] law-abiding; the rate for Hispanics is worse, at [I]almost three quarters[/I]. In the controlled test, the dog-handler teams failed at [I]ten times[/I] the rate they succeeded. Even though [I]you[/I] may not mind having the police paw through your belongings, it doesn't follow that the rest of us don't. While I'm sure that they're not doing it to get their jollies, and they're doing it because they earnestly suspect that there's evidence of a crime to be found, that doesn't change the fact that such suspicion is manifestly unreasonable in the face of current research. We get annoyed when the TV weatherman misses a forecast periodically, or when the ref at the football game blows even a single call, but here we have a case where the State (through its agents, the police) is wrong literally more often than it is right as a result of not understanding how its tools work, and we're willing to write it off, along with the infringement upon our Fourth Amendment rights. [/QUOTE]
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