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Re:Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a P... by MSFT_Edging on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @02:33PM (#49186994)
Police dogs are another insane thing we allow.

You can be mauled by a police dog and if you hit the dog, you get an assault on a police officer charge. It's bad enough a cop can permanently disable you if you can't follow 3 conflicting orders being yelled, but they can also send an animal who literally doesn't know better.

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Re:Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a P... by kyleee on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:17PM (#49188399)
And the absurdity of a dog sniffing around the car for contraband. Crazy that’s allowed and taken seriously by the justice system
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Re:Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a P... by BobaFloutist on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @05:06PM (#49189006)
Well the courts said they need probable cause for a search, so they needed an on-demand probable cause generator, or else they wouldn't be able to do pretextual searches on "randomly" stopped minorities anymore, which would be a violation of they(the police)'re civil rights.
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Re:Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a P... by tavavex on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @08:21PM (#49190837)
The best thing is that the dog's actions are taken seriously from a judicial standpoint, yet the dog obviously can't be held responsible, so if there's wrongful action, no one is ever at fault!
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