Why legalized marijuana is forcing some police dogs into retirement. USA Today.

[neversickanymore]

With marijuana legalized in more states, many canine cops are headed for retirement

As recreational marijuana becomes legal in states like Minnesota, Maryland and Missouri, more drug-detecting police dogs are headed for retirement.

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[PtahTek]

I would so adopt a service animal.
On a lighter note: You could always find the weed man if ya was lookin... just sayin.

 

[Bonediver]

Hemp is legal in all 50 States. So it doesn’t mater if marijuana is legalized in the State. That means this is not a new issue related directly to legalizing marijuana.

But society in general has had the “wool pulled over their eyes” so to speak. The employment of drug detection k-9s is not some great adventure try to rid the country of illicit drug use. The k-9s are an effective tool used to circumvent 4th Amendment protections. Their soul purpose is to alert on cars (or other areas that are Constitutionally protected),cars the officer wants to rummage through.

 

[Burnt Offerings]

Yeah those dogs are often used in a very corrupt way, very much in a way that circumvents a person’s 4th amendment protections…a lot of times the dogs handler will make some cue for the dog to indicate, which is why a k9’s record of “false positives” is important for court-related purposes

 

[Bonediver]

Yeah those dogs are often used in a very corrupt way, very much in a way that circumvents a person’s 4th amendment protections…a lot of times the dogs handler will make some cue for the dog to indicate, which is why a k9’s record of “false positives” is important for court-related purposes

That’s assuming there is a record of false positives. Who would be responsible for the keeping of these records? That would be the police themselves. Do you really believe they would keep accurate reports? Some that may question their dog’s credibility? Nope they will say “shake” was in floorboard or previous passenger could have had marijuana. Now those “false positives” become confirmed positives and Fido’s credibility gets boosted.

 

[Burnt Offerings]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/05/supreme-courts-alternative-facts-about-drug-sniffing-dogs/

It seems like whoever is keeping those stats is being at least somewhat honest, as the records for some of these k9s are quite embarrassing, like over 50% false positive embarrassing. But, it seems to be kind of irrelevant at the moment because of some Supreme Court decisions over the past decade or so. It obviously SHOULD matter though

 

[new2drugs]

Let the dogs do something useful.

Less sniffer dogs the better