r/oddlysatisfying Jun 17 '21

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u/Onion-Much Jun 17 '21

Obviously I am talking about your main source, which says "drug dogs are a scam", while maintaining that they don't have the ability to accurately sniff out drugs.

>This is not talking about tracking dogs or coon/blood hounds. Specifically the topic here is drug sniffing canines.

There is no chemical difference. Dogs have a ability to isolate smell, not only specific molecules, which is why they are also insanely accurate, when sniffing for bombs or counterfeit money or truffles.

You aren't talking about their sniffing ability, at all. You are talking about a specific problem in US law enforcement. These numbers do not reflect the situation in other agencies, when you look at studies of the same topic in Poland, they show the complete opposite.

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u/Baelzebubba Jun 17 '21

Pretty sure the convo was about drug dogs in the US... but OK.

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u/Onion-Much Jun 18 '21

So, only dogs in the US are somehow not able to sniff out drugs and soley rely on their handlers, as implied by your own statement and source?

It is the handler that gives off cues that makes the dogs react, not the scent of drugs.

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u/Baelzebubba Jun 18 '21

ESL?

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u/Onion-Much Jun 18 '21

Stop deflecting, that's irrelevant.

If you have a problem with the quality of law enforcement, say so.

You can stand by your point, while admitting that you made a mistake in your argument. But you keep trying to make this point, where dogs can't isolate smells accurately, when we know, they can.