Are there limits to drug-sniffing dogs?
The work of a trained narcotics detection dog in Miami is part of a legal dispute that could very well reach the Supreme Court.
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The state is asking the nation’s high court to consider overturning a decision by the Florida Supreme Court, asking whether a sniff at the front door of the house by a trained narcotics detection dog is itself a search that requires probable cause.
The case involves a search of a Miami house where police had been tipped that someone was growing marijuana. After surveillance of the house turned up nothing, a detective went up onto the porch with Franky the drug sniffing dog. Franky gave the alert signal that he’d been trained to give when smelling drugs, and at that point the police left the porch. Another detective — aware that the dog had smelled drugs — then went to the door to knock on it and, while there was no answer, he said he also smelled marijuana.
The detective then left and went to get a warrant to search the house. The information he gave to the judge noted Franky’s alert at the house. The magistrate issued the warrant, police returned and found a lot of marijuana and arrested the resident, Joelis Jardines, as he tried to flee.
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Now THIS is WRONG !!
You can train a dog to ''point'' to a smell very very easily... using a dog in this way is a breach of the Rights of the Dog. He didn't ask to rat on a human.
The REAL issue here is whether the law of keeping marijuana illegal is a good law. Marijuana in itself is not bad, (just like dogs that bite people), it's the laws around it that make it ''go bad''. In this instance, dogs that are under socialised, dogs that can't BE a DOG.
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The state is asking the nation’s high court to consider overturning a decision by the Florida Supreme Court, asking whether a sniff at the front door of the house by a trained narcotics detection dog is itself a search that requires probable cause.
The case involves a search of a Miami house where police had been tipped that someone was growing marijuana. After surveillance of the house turned up nothing, a detective went up onto the porch with Franky the drug sniffing dog. Franky gave the alert signal that he’d been trained to give when smelling drugs, and at that point the police left the porch. Another detective — aware that the dog had smelled drugs — then went to the door to knock on it and, while there was no answer, he said he also smelled marijuana.
The detective then left and went to get a warrant to search the house. The information he gave to the judge noted Franky’s alert at the house. The magistrate issued the warrant, police returned and found a lot of marijuana and arrested the resident, Joelis Jardines, as he tried to flee.
Read more>>
Now THIS is WRONG !!
You can train a dog to ''point'' to a smell very very easily... using a dog in this way is a breach of the Rights of the Dog. He didn't ask to rat on a human.
The REAL issue here is whether the law of keeping marijuana illegal is a good law. Marijuana in itself is not bad, (just like dogs that bite people), it's the laws around it that make it ''go bad''. In this instance, dogs that are under socialised, dogs that can't BE a DOG.
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