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It is definitely a worrying state of affairs when the only person allowed to dispute police engaging in illegal or unethical behavior is another policeman. The
by Dr_tldr 11y ago
It is definitely a worrying state of affairs when the only person allowed to dispute police engaging in illegal or unethical behavior is another policeman. The police are the mafia, and the only time they'll be disciplined without overwhelming evidence is when they mistakenly try to shake down another made man.
It's not like K-9s are uniquely to blame: the next generation of 4th-amendment violating technologies are already here, just waiting in the wings for judicial approval, or in some cases, to overturn previous rulings. And once they get even the most limited permission, these things (like infrared) will be used by the police as dousing rods to take them wherever they want to go.
- mgleason_3 11y agoHonestly, these laws need to be repealed or found unconstitutional. This is out of control.
- ghayes 11y agoThe latter might take awhile. See Florida v Harris (2013) [0] > Harris ... challenge[d] the dog's reliability, backed by data that asserts that on average, up to 80% of a dog's alerts are wrong. > The Court unanimously held that if a bona fide organization has certified a dog after testing his reliability in a controlled setting, or if the dog has recently and successfully completed a training program that evaluated his proficiency, a court can presume (subject to any conflicting evidence offered) that the dog's alert provides probable cause to search, using a "totality-of-the-circumstances" approach. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Harris