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minus-squareskulblaka@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·29 days agoDrug dogs have an average success rate of about 44%. If they’re sniffing around a Latino that rate drops to 27%. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right They can sort of smell drugs, sometimes, but more often than not they are simply a tool that manufactures probable cause.
minus-squarenifty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·25 days agoThat’s too bad, so much that happens in World War Z (book) depends on dogs being able to smell sus shit out
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Drug dogs have an average success rate of about 44%.
If they’re sniffing around a Latino that rate drops to 27%.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right
They can sort of smell drugs, sometimes, but more often than not they are simply a tool that manufactures probable cause.
That’s too bad, so much that happens in World War Z (book) depends on dogs being able to smell sus shit out