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    1 year ago

    Happy for the dog. Less happy (but not surprised) that it is being trained to falsely alert. Much easier to screen people for no reason that way!

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          1 year ago

          Yeah pretty sure the dogs are trained to alert on command. If the cops want to search your car, they’ll have the dog alert and use that as the excuse.

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            Alerting on a car is such bullshit. The dog will learn that “alerting on a car” elicits rewards, not that “finding drugs” elicits rewards.

            Source: dog

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            If it were an official way to train dogs then it would be a nationwide scandal. However, the handlers can always train them in their own time. After all, besides a K9 being a partner, they also live with their handlers. I wouldn’t be surprised if some handlers have done just that - to alert on a subtle (subtle enough) physical queue or even command, like “Search buddy” instead of “search go.”

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              I know a guy who is a K9 handler for the police force. He runs a security camera company and uses his customers footage to track people in police chances and such. He also was given a restaurant and a manufacturing plant that produced masks during covid. Dude did security cameras for a company I worked at and pulled out his police officer pistol to show it off just like about everything else my comment mentions. I don’t think he should have a gun or a police trained K9, but maybe that’s what qualifies him…

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            You were blessed to have your friends dad show up. Sometimes they do weird shit like grab your wrist so when you pull away they can get you for resisting and they beat your ass after situations like that.

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      Seriously, story completely goes over that some poor bastard was airport swatted over some pizza.

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      Yeah I got pulled over once and illegally searched by dogs. They supposedly alerted. It totally wasn’t that half a Subway sandwich on my passenger seat. They proceeded to tear my car apart anyway while simultaneously trying to convince me to confess to drugs that weren’t in my car. Scumbags.