Midnight@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agoDrug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mailtheintercept.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1342arrow-down15
arrow-up1337arrow-down1external-linkDrug-Sniffing Police Dogs Are Intercepting Abortion Pills in the Mailtheintercept.comMidnight@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down3·1 month agoThe dog isn’t doing anything wrong. Most of the time they just alert based on subtle handler behavior anyway.
minus-squareFlocklesscrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoDogs “alerting” has as much grounding in truth as a polygraph test. Polygraph results are not admissable in court, FYI.
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 month agoWe need an rct where the clinic sends abortion pills to some people and placebo pills to others. Or even to the same person in separate identical packages. Then see if the dogs alert more on the abortion pills or not.
minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoWhich is likely in this case since the envelope did not contain any narcotics.
The dog isn’t doing anything wrong. Most of the time they just alert based on subtle handler behavior anyway.
Dogs “alerting” has as much grounding in truth as a polygraph test.
Polygraph results are not admissable in court, FYI.
We need an rct where the clinic sends abortion pills to some people and placebo pills to others. Or even to the same person in separate identical packages. Then see if the dogs alert more on the abortion pills or not.
Which is likely in this case since the envelope did not contain any narcotics.