In theory, drug dogs seems like a reasonable way to target drugs and potential dealers. But as it turns out, sniffer dogs are wrong about two-thirds the time, at least according to ficial from strip searches in the Australian state New South Wales last year.
The new report reveals that the 1,124 people singled out by dogs, only 406 were found with drugs on them. That failure rate suggests that 718 or 64% people were subjected to an unnecessary search.
shares similar figures for the first half this year, from January through June 7. Of the 735 times people were searched due to drug dog indications thus far, 321 were found with drugs. The 56% failure rate leaves plenty room for improvement.
Greens MP David Shoebridge the campaign believes, “These aggressive searches are all about PR, about the police being seen to do something on the failing war on drugs.
“Any other government program that gets it wrong almost two-thirds the time would be immediately halted,” he adds.
Remember the whole fiasco that went down at Above & Beyond last month? Fans were to leave drugs at home and if targeted by a drug dog, they’d be denied entry at the door. One young lady even claims she was after being searched and nothing was found on her.
Wo.
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