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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Awesome job!
ReplyDeleteHank, with a tongue like that, I am sure will not have a problem getting a date with a lady dog friend! Good job on getting the drugs off the street.
ReplyDeleteDoes Hank have his own police vest? If not I will chip in and I'm sure all of your readers would as well. I understand they range about $1K. We should be able to come up with that in no time. Please let us know Joe.
ReplyDeleteFalco's usage reports showed that in controlled tests he could be highly accurate -- correctly alerting more than 90 percent of the time. But in real life situations the results were starkly different.
ReplyDelete"The court found that Falco was 35.5 percent accurate," says Gaines. And a judge ruled that such a low success rate didn't give the police probable cause to make the search.
"The evidence was suppressed because Falco was not reliable. Now the government was very upset about that," says Gaines. "When I get evidence thrown out of court, you know even my mother's upset about it, okay? But it's the law enforcement's problem. The Fourth Amendment is there to protect our rights."
Gaines is the first lawyer to successfully challenge the reliability of a detection dog in a federal court. But unless canine training programs improve, and a universal set of standards is put in place, he's unlikely to be the last.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/does-the-nose-know/
I have experienced this first hand. Unbeknownst to me, a friend was on vacation in Hawaii and sent me six pineapples as a surprise, via the postal service, air freight. Somehow someone at the Salisbury airport decided this was suspicious. The State Police were summoned along with "Fido" the drug sniffing dog. "Fido", according to the 18 page court warrant, was 100% accurate at sniffing out contraband throughout his eight year career. He was never wrong. Alas, he alerted positively to my package. Keep in mind I did not know what was in the package as it was a surprise. When I went to retrieve my gift I took along our family dog, a Golden Retriever, for a ride to get her out of the house. We picked up the box and proceeded out onto Airport Road when we were stopped by the State Police. I was served the warrant, handcuffed and thrown across the thrown across the hood of my car, my Golden, who wanted to lick everyone, was manhandled and restrained. I have never been arrested in my life. We were horrified. The box of pineapples (contraband) was torn open and dumped onto the ground. With a large knife, each was cut into small pieces in search of the illegal substance as alerted to by Fido. There was no contraband. They, the gun wielding, vest adorned State Police, all six of them, proceeded to kick the pieces of pineapple into the ditch. They instructed me to obey the speed limit on the way home. No remorse, no compensation, no nothing. Btw, I am a white male in my 50's.
ReplyDeleteand now that pot is legal, police have to replace their drug sniffing dogs with those which won't alert on (legal) pot.
ReplyDeletepot is not legal.
ReplyDeleteSmart dealers transport their dope inside packages of meat, then when the dog hits on the grocery bag, they explain it away on the smell of the meat.
ReplyDeleteGood dog!
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