Comment on Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more.

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• onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As long as this doesn’t have an 80% false positive rate like the dogs do.

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  • kn33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s a feature, not a bug

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would not blame the dogs so much is the handlers. The handlers can get a false positive on command.

    But all of these computerized programs also give authorities the ability to initiate false positives you better believe it. From The Unseen higher-ups down to the guy running the program on the ground.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s the dogs that have the false positive rate, it’s the handlers.

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    • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which is why dogs hitting on something should never be reasonable cause.

      Although I’m a bit biased because a drug dog hitting on Claritin D in my front seat is why I spent 19 weeks in alternative school. Those fuckers picked flakes of what they called weed out of my floorboards.

      I know there wasn’t weed in there because I took it out that morning.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Man, that sucks.

        And yeah, I agree that a drug dog shouldn’t automatically trigger probable cause, but instead merely reasonable suspicion, meaning they can detain, but not search. They shouldn’t even be able to request a warrant based only on a drug dog hit. They should need multiple articulable reasons to suspect you of a crime to get to the point of a warrant, search, or arrest.

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• AceBonobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depends on the price

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• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tangent fun fact: after the reunification of west and east Germany, the patrol dogs for the east German wall were put up for adoption, and found loving homes :)

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