Can we knock it off with the police dogs already?
This is not 1808. You’re driving around to stop bums from shouting at ATM’s, not chasing escaped slaves. Enough is enough.
And has anyone actually witnessed a police dog doing a drug bust?
I’m sure they happen at the airport, but I think these are scams, setups to make us think twice about transporting our drugs to use quietly in hotel rooms in strange and intimidating cities. Sometimes you need a couple ecstasy pills to build up the courage to walk to the Jimmy John’s, the only restaurant you know from home.
And is that really the best use of a perfectly good dog? I don’t think a dog would prefer to do that shit. If you could just talk to a police dog for a minute, sit him down and say, “I do carry drugs. However I would happily walk you every day and drive around with you hanging dangerously out the window” he would just leave with you and never bother with this police nonsense again.
What if I brought my own dog and said, “Well, he’s trained too, and he’s NOT barking. So it’s kind of one dog’s word against another here. I feel like that cancels out and I will be on my way.”
Have you heard they train these dogs in German so that other people don’t know the commands? Why German? Isn’t that a little…Nazi-ish? I mean, Chinese is a perfectly good language, and I guarantee that I’m not going to know how to command a Chinese-fluent dog or hit a word that’s even close. I’m just saying, when someone is being dragged to the ground against his will and you throw in a man shouting in German, there’s a tone there.
And where are these dogs taking shits? I have a strong feeling that cops are not carrying around shit bags all day.
All we would need to replace police dogs is a machine that they SAY knows when drugs are in the area. An electronic dog. Then you just stage drug busts (just like now) and everyone believes it. We get our dogs back, you have more free time to look through magazines for combat boots. It’s win/win.