Drug dogs are wrong more than they are right

From the "I told you so" files comes a scathing new report from the Chicago Tribune that shows drug sniffing dogs are right about finding drugs in less than half of the cases studied. Well duh.

But even advocates for the use of drug-sniffing dogs agree with experts who say many dog-and-officer teams are poorly trained and prone to false alerts that lead to unjustified searches. Leading a dog around a car too many times or spending too long examining a vehicle, for example, can cause a dog to give a signal for drugs where there are none, experts said.

Just because something is accepted doesn't make it right. Read the rest of the Tribune article here.