{"id":1597,"date":"2013-12-22T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2013-12-22T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:11:00","slug":"legal-challenge-questions-reliability-of-police-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Legal challenge questions reliability of police dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The reliability of drug dogs and their handlers is at the heart of a lawsuit filed in state district court by two Nevada Highway Patrol K-9 troopers and a consultant, who claim that the Metropolitan Police Department&#8217;s police dogs, and eventually NHP&#8217;s own dogs, were &#8220;trick ponies&#8221; that responded to their handlers&#8217; cues, and therefore routinely violated citizens&#8217; rights to lawful search under the Fourth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/crime-courts\/legal-challenge-questions-reliability-police-dogs\">Legal challenge questions reliability of police dogs | Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Often the K-9 troopers were partnered with a drug task force that paired them with Las Vegas police narcotics detectives and that agency&#8217;s K-9 dogs. They would go to a FedEx sorting facility where, the troopers allege, Las Vegas police detectives took packages from a sorting belt and poked holes in them so their dogs could better sniff for drugs inside. In one case, a detective tore open a package and searched its contents.<\/p>\n<p>All of this was done without the consent of the owners of the packages, which would be illegal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reliability of drug dogs and their handlers is at the heart of a lawsuit filed in state district court by two Nevada Highway Patrol K-9 troopers and a consultant, who claim that the Metropolitan Police Department&#8217;s police dogs, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-drug-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}