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> So just to be clear: He said he used drugs, a gate agent smelled drugs, the cops smelled drugs, and you just want to argue that if a dog also smelled drugs th
by jMyles 11y ago
> So just to be clear: He said he used drugs, a gate agent smelled drugs, the cops smelled drugs, and you just want to argue that if a dog also smelled drugs that that dog is unreliable even though the arrested party says the dog was correct..?
There's nothing strange about this. On one the features of a drug sniffing dog is that it is supposed to be able to distinguish between a lingering odor, a passing odor, the presence of residue, and the presence of actual material - in a way that a human can't.
- ghshephard 11y agoCould you provide a citation for that?
- jMyles 11y agoRadley Balko writes that he learned this from Gene Papet, a professional trainer of K9 unit dogs. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-considers-t_1_b_2063820.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-con...
- pandaman 11y agoThe article you have referred talks about numerous cases where dogs actually detect remaining odors and then alleges that dogs could be trained to ignore weak odors.
- jMyles 11y agoTrue. I suppose in these (and many) cases, it's simply that this feature is turned off; probably regarded as a bug by the user.
- pandaman 11y agoOr this feature simply does not exist, contrary to your belief.
- jMyles 11y agoWell, if you think that Balko mis-reported, go ahead and ask him for clarification.
- pandaman 11y agoNo, I don't think so. I don't see where he said dogs are trained like that. He actually said almost the opposite - dogs are not ignoring weak smells.
- jMyles 11y agoI'm not following. He said that 1) such training is possible, and that 2) at least in some cases, it is ignored or that dogs who have this capability are rejected. So indeed, the feature appears, at least according to his source, to be available. And it also appears to be regarded as (or mistaken for) a bug by the users.
- pandaman 11y agoI see. It seems you have your own meaning for the word "feature" that makes it interchangeable with the word "option".