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>>a cash-sniffing dog with the Dallas Police Department alerted on a suitcase that had been checked in at Love Field for a domestic flight to Chicago. Officers
by toss1 3y ago
>>a cash-sniffing dog with the Dallas Police Department alerted on a suitcase that had been checked in at Love Field for a domestic flight to Chicago. Officers subsequently searched the bag and found over $100,000 in cash inside.
Likely alerted to the scent of drug residues on the bills, which is supposedly on essentially every bill in circulation.
So, perhaps the owner of the cash might have been better off by first putting it in a washing machine with soap, i.e. physically laundering the money?
- tristor 3y agoNo. They actually train dogs to alert on cash, specifically. The scent they train on is the scent of the special ink used to print US currency. They do this because large amounts of cash moving between cities/states is often a hallmark of organized crime.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoAnd because they can freely take cash for personal use when they find it.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoCash sniffing dogs for the express purpose of robbing citizens without any reasonable suspicion, much less probable cause. If contraband or other crimes were involved, then I say seize property, but the police shouldn't be the Sheriff of Nottingham looking for citizens to rob.
- nick-of-time 3y agoOr the dog alerted on nothing, since they have a bonkers false positive rate: https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/sniffer-dogs-get-it-wrong-four-out-of-five-times-20111211-1oprv.html https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/sniffer-dogs...