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minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 days agoI’d assume they’re just doing the rounds with drug sniffer dogs. Those dogs have crazy sensitivity.
minus-squareskulblaka@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoDrug dogs have an average success rate of about 44%. If they’re sniffing around a Latino that rate drops to 27%. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right They can sort of smell drugs, sometimes, but more often than not they are simply a tool that manufactures probable cause.
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I’d assume they’re just doing the rounds with drug sniffer dogs. Those dogs have crazy sensitivity.
Drug dogs have an average success rate of about 44%.
If they’re sniffing around a Latino that rate drops to 27%.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right
They can sort of smell drugs, sometimes, but more often than not they are simply a tool that manufactures probable cause.