https://barelyablog.com/sniffing-for-bones-not-drugs/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://barelyablog.com/sniffing-for-bones-not-drugs/comment-page-1/#comment-17399 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:49:25 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=33255#comment-17399 Of course dogs are racist. I used to live for two years in a very “diverse” neighbourhood, which made me find out that my terrier dislikes blacks, but also women in Muslim garb, drunks (even though he liked them when sober) and beggars. I SWEAR that is true. In the white middleclass neighbourhood in which we are living for almost two years now, he didn’t bat as much as an eyelid at anybody.

]]> https://barelyablog.com/sniffing-for-bones-not-drugs/comment-page-1/#comment-17398 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 21:00:19 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=33255#comment-17398 The odds are that if the suspects fit the profile, you have a seventy-five to twenty-five chance. When I worked as a probation officer, I knew who’s reefer to check. Most of the time, if I missed the alcohol or drugs, a relative would tell me later where I failed to look. If I had been fortunate enough to have a ‘drug dog’ I could have had an excuse. “The dog didn’t do it.”

]]> https://barelyablog.com/sniffing-for-bones-not-drugs/comment-page-1/#comment-17396 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:35:10 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=33255#comment-17396 Barry Cooper explains that cops can trigger a false alarm whenever they want to search a suspects car.

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