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It's the fact that drug dogs at train stations unfairly target poor people and minorities for possession of personal quantities of drugs (traffickers don't take
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
It's the fact that drug dogs at train stations unfairly target poor people and minorities for possession of personal quantities of drugs (traffickers don't take the train), despite rates of drug use being fairly consistent across socio-economic borders. Drug dogs are also generally also inaccurate and respond heavily to their handlers signals, and are therefore susceptible to their handlers biases. They're basically a tool for creating probable cause for a search (although in New South Wales, apparently refusal to consent to a search is also probable cause, go figure).
So yes, it's the dogs that make them fascist.
- refurb 8y agoI see your point about drug dogs on trains adversely impacting poor people, but what does that have to do with fascism?
- solveit 8y agoThe fact that Fascism doesn't mean Fascism any more and is now synonymous with whatever flavour of authoritarianism the speaker wants it to mean.
- masonic 8y agounfairly target poor people and minorities How do they train the dogs to recognize which people are poor?
- toomanybeersies 8y agoAs I said, they respond heavily to their handlers signals. Basically the cops can give someone an odd look and the dog will go and sit next to them. The false positive rate for drug dogs can be as high as 80%. That's not really any better than just randomly guessing. Also, people who take public transport tend to be lower-income.
- windowsworkstoo 8y agoThey only have the dogs at stations with in lower socioeconomic areas...