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Airport baggage drug dogs must obviously have far fewer false positives than that. So alerting on everything can't be the state of the art.
by exporectomy 5y ago
Airport baggage drug dogs must obviously have far fewer false positives than that. So alerting on everything can't be the state of the art.
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- thaumasiotes 5y agohttps://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-police-dog-who-cried-drugs-at-every-traffic-stop/ https://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-police-dog-who-cried-drugs... > Similar patterns abound nationwide, suggesting that Karma's career was not unusual. Lex, a drug detection dog in Illinois, alerted for narcotics 93 percent of the time during roadside sniffs, but was wrong in more than 40 percent of cases. Sella, a drug detection dog in Florida, gave false alerts 53 percent of the time. Bono, a drug detection dog in Virginia, incorrectly indicated the presence of drugs 74 percent of the time.
- imwillofficial 5y agoOut of how many dogs? We’re these outliers or the regular thing?
- stickfigure 5y agoWhat feedback loop is built into the system to discourage this from being the regular thing?
- dagw 5y agoI've had my bag sniffed at airports at least 50 times, and they've never stopped me. So there must be something else going on as well
- pixl97 5y agoThe handler didn't think you looked untrustworthy and didn't hint for the dog to bark.
- fortran77 5y agoDrug detection dogs sit down near the bag. They don't bark.
- emodendroket 5y agoThe police only call in the dogs when they wish to search and the driver does not agree. The airport doesn't do things this way so the same strategy wouldn't work.
- jsjohnst 5y agoAirport dogs (at least in the baggage claim area) are not sniffing for drugs. They alert on food products that aren’t allowed.
- heavyset_go 5y agoAnd explosives.
- jsjohnst 5y agoThe dogs which alert on explosives are not usually in the baggage claim area.
- burnte 5y agoI was pulled over in West Baton Rouge in 2009, we were driving east in an empty rental box truck after helping a friend move back to Tx. It was 1am, we were pulled over on a BS pretense (weaving across lanes when we signaled a lane change because they had someone else pulled over, so we obeyed the law of pulling over a lane to give them room). I denied their request to search the truck, they had no reason. They called the drug dog, who after the third walk around, "signaled" drugs at the right front tire (after having thir leash jerked). They then "had cause" to search the truck. After finding two small suitcases with clothes (exactly what we told them they'd find), the main cop got really angry with me for "making a mockery of the south", threw the keys at me and told us to GTFO. I'm 100% convinced drug dogs are trained to "signal" falsely at certain things like a leash tug. It's all BS.
- wpietri 5y agoYikes. Seems like the biggest group of people making a mockery of the south is the southerners like this guy who insist on acting like cartoonish southern stereotypes. I should also add that dogs and many other animals really like pleasing people. So one doesn't even have to consciously train for outcomes like this. A famous example is Clever Hans, the horse that supposedly could read, do math, and answer questions like "If the eighth day of the month comes on a Tuesday, what is the date of the following Friday?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans