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A Twitter post by Kylie Cunningham @kyyylieeeee that reads “today at the airport one of the drug dogs set off a false alarm and officers rushed over to find out the dog had alerted them for a piece of pizza. the handler just patted his head and goes "it's okay buddy i know pizza always confuses you" and gave him his treat anyways.”
This is one of the big issues with 'drug dogs'; they're conditioned to give false positives for rewards.
Those same false positives the serve as grounds for an otherwise illegal search and regardless of findings are often later presented as evidence in any resulting charges as a statement of fact that the 'dog alerted' on the victim to bypass an individuals 4th amendment rights.
They should be required to keep a comprehensive database about any dog whose alert could be used as probable cause. Every time they alert, and whether it was successful or unsuccessful. Every time they are rewarded by their trainer. Every time they are tested and retrained.
Once the data is available, it will be extremely useful even if the police fake the data, because it will most likely be possible to tell that it's fake.
There have been studies, dogs suck at actually finding things and are just useful for cops to create "probable cause" to do what they want.
Technically they do keep log books but if a dog doesn't find something they just log it as trace evidence. "Some shake" " a mysterious powder" "hard crystalline substance" "there must have been people in there recently" things that would be hard to prove or disprove but maybe the hit average raise all the same.
I don't disagree with everything you say but this post is totally fake. Trained dogs would definitely not alert for pizza, why the fuck would pizza be inside luggage, and they absolutely don't reward these dogs for mistakes. Ffs, please use some critical sense?
they absolutely don't reward these dogs for mistakes
What makes you say that? There is pretty strong evidence that they do.
What evidence? Dogs with jobs get pretty strict training.
The conditioning doesnt work well with a delayed reward. They dont wait until after the search and the dog is proven correct to give the reward when in the field, (unlike in the training where the handlers know which items are correct ahead of time and can only reward correct responses )
Your also making a huge assumption that the officer handling the dog is actually good at his job.
Why wouldn't pizza be in luggage? Taking a leftover slice in a plastic bag on my carry-on to wait for my flight sounds like a fantastic idea and is way cheaper than buying food there. People pack all kinds of snacks and meals for the airport.
A dog alerting for food is also not that shocking at all, especially if the officer rewards them anyway. Sure a freshly trained dog might not do it, but if their handler still rewards them for alerting on foods then they will forget their training pretty quick.
And well an officer doing the wrong thing and disregarding their training is not hard to believe at all.
Everything in this story is definently plausible
This dog 100% has his handler trained
Even better: the pizza dude and the handler are both on the take, and its how they get the drugs through security.
~~get the drugs through security~~ confiscate "suspicious" pizza slices for "internal examination"
My son got stopped at an immigration checkpoint. He was freaking out because he had a weed vape in his pocket. After a car search they realized that the k9 alerted on his dog who was in heat.
Lucky
more like stupid. do not carry illegal weed vapes through the immigration checkpoint and you don't want to freak out. it is what i would do if i really wanted to immigrate somewhere.
Immigration checkpoints in Southern California aren't just for immigrants. They stop everyone to scan for immigrants, and you have to pass through them when you go to certain places. Weed vapes are legal under state law in California, but illegal under Federal law.
Meh. Fuck the state.
if you're gonna do it, at least do it semi-smart
bury it in a trash bag in your trunk or something and claim it's from cleaning up road side debris
yeah. but we are talking about real world here, not your teenage anarchist wet dream. and in the real world, unfortunately, it is always the state which ends up fucking you, it is never the other way around. see, the person in the story, no matter whether real or imaginary, wanted to emigrate from somewhere and the reason was probably... guess what - the state.
I'm not sure how this is 🥺🥺🥺, the trainer is literally reinforcing negative behaviour
Well the whole thing is a charade to enable arbitrary searchers...
False hits are considered positive behaviour. Drug dogs are just for show to violate citizens rights. A loophole.
Drug dogs are probably less accurate than the pseudo science "lie detector" test.
Police dogs are even worse. Their entire purpose is to find and severely injure a suspect and turn them into a felon. Here's how it works. Cops release dog on suspect. Dog finds suspect and begins to severely attack suspect. Suspect tries to fight the dog ripping a hole in its arm or leg. Suspect is now guilty of assaulting an officer. At this point is doesn't matter if the suspect was guilty of anything else. They are now a felon.
It's 🥺🥺🥺 because it's a fake story made by a child.
He is a drug AND pizza dog. His trainer probably gets an awful lot of free pizza.
This whole thing about "drug dogs" is junk science in service of security theater. Laughably phony.
The sad part is the animal abuse - both dogs and humans.
little did the handler know, the pizza was filled with drugs
I get it. Pizza is like crack to me, too
And then I started vomiting it was so cute. The dog collapsed from joy and also started vomiting, as did the trainer. Soon the whole terminal was vomiting and crying tears of happiness. And then we all fucked as doves flew overhead shitting out rainbows and butterflies.
Ohh but when I confuse drugs for pizza get a lifetime ban from pizza Hut
The dog just figured out how addictive pizza can be and assumes it is a drug.
But also... What if they hid drugs in the pizza crust? 🤔