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Nothing is the dog's fault, because the dog is a dog. But that's beyond the point.
by liability 7y ago
Nothing is the dog's fault, because the dog is a dog. But that's beyond the point.
- notahacker 7y agoThe point is that if a law enforcement person lies about finding something due to their dog, the problem is juries [reasonably] trust the law enforcement personnel are telling the truth about what they find afterwards, not that they trust the dog's instincts. Indeed your average jury is almost guaranteed to have someone with enough interest in dogs to know they sometimes react to things other than suspicious substances.
- jariel 7y agoThe cop has 1000 ways to compromise justice using any and all tools, so this is a secondary issue. If dogs can indeed sniff out stuff in a manner consistently beyond random, then they are a good first pass tool.