K-9 sniffer dogs under scrutiny [More]Video of a former cop who went through hell because of false identification by bloodhounds...
He's suing because his civil rights have been violated.
Hopefully, this will motivate him to become an informed crusader against "Only One" abuses of the civil rights of others he must surely have witnessed during his 25-year career--unless anyone contends this is the first and only time...
[Via Tommy S]
I noticed that the dog "alerted" on the only can with human scent in it. Geez Louise nothing slipshod about that investigative technique. Sort of like drug dogs trained to alert on car bumpers thus giving probable cause for a search. Uh huh, I believe them, I do, really, for sure, right.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if the neighbor was a friend of the accused it is likely the scent of both would be in the environs. Giving the dog an item to sniff, even if the dog gets it right, only means he identified the scent his handler wanted him to find. Unless the dog chooses the scent initially, it means less than nothing, unless the dog can follow the scent to a blood covered unknown subject.
Giving the dog the scent of a known subject tells the dog he is to again identify that scent, how the Hell does that extrapolate to evidence?
As for the accused ex-cop, I have to wonder how many times in his career he decided who did it, then made the evidence fit. Could this be a case of almost poetic justice? Almost, because he didn't lose his liberty over trumped up evidence.