{"id":14379,"date":"2012-01-02T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14379"},"modified":"2012-01-02T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T19:07:03","slug":"the-mans-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14379","title":{"rendered":"The Man's Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2011\/12\/focusing-on-the-wrong-thing.html\">Sebastian @ ObWi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a certiorari petition before the Supreme Court on the question of whether or not bringing a drug sniffing dog to somone's home counts as a police search.  It is a legal problem at all because using drug sniffing dogs on a person's car has been deemed \"not a search\" under the 4th amendment.  This is a surprising result in itself, but leave that aside for the moment.  So having discovered that using a drug sniffing dog around a car isn't a search, some police officer decided to use it around a house.  This ends up implicating all sorts of problems, because constitutionally speaking homes are specially protected areas when it comes to police searches. <\/p>\n<p>So now various high courts have to decide how to distinguish the case of the drug sniffing dog near a home from a drug sniffing dog near a car.  Great.  But that is the wrong question entirely.  It turns out that drug sniffing dogs have an incredibly high false positive rate--they alert many more times than drugs are actually found once a search is done.  Worse the dogs seem to alert much more often if their handler suspects there should be an alert--independent of whether or not there are actually drugs present.  So the dog launders the police officer's suspicion instead of actually adding new information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian @ ObWi: There is a certiorari petition before the Supreme Court on the question of whether or not bringing a drug sniffing dog to somone's home counts as a police search. It is a legal problem at all because using drug sniffing dogs on a person's car has been deemed \"not a search\" under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}