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Drug-Sniffing Dogs in Traffic Stops Often Wrong
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2011-01-07 03:00
The dogs are trained to dig or sit when they smell drugs, which triggers automobile searches. But a Tribune analysis of three years of data for suburban departments found that only 44 percent of those alerts by the dogs led to the discovery of drugs or paraphernalia.
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