Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough

Re:Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin fli... by mikeash on Friday August 07, 2015 @03:18PM (#10024417)

It's hard for me to come up with an answer, because I want to just say, "Don't search them at all, the War on Drugs is stupid anyway."

Of course, it's the job of the police and the courts to come up with an answer, so we should be able to let them do it. But it seems they can't be trusted to reason about it well.

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Re:Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin fli... by harryh on Friday August 07, 2015 @03:28PM (#10024473)

Well sure but that doesn't really get to the core of the problem because I could just as easily substitute "guns" for "drugs" and all the issues will stay much the same (unless you're also a 2nd amendment purist in which case I might have to struggle to come up with another example.)

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Re:Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin fli... by mikeash on Friday August 07, 2015 @03:51PM (#10024601)

Yep, but by then I'm working pretty hard on imagining the alternative scenario and trying to ignore the actual drugs-related scenario and I can't trust myself to think straight about it anymore.

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Re:Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin fli... by harryh on Friday August 07, 2015 @04:03PM (#10024660)

A man that admits his biases! I like it!

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