I’ve written quite a bit about drug dogs in Illinois, and it turns out they’re pretty terrible at detecting drugs. In 2011, the Chicago Tribune published a review of drug dog searches conducted over three years by police departments in the Chicago suburbs. The following year, I obtained the records of an Illinois State Police drug dog for an 11-month period in 2007 and 2008. That’s the exact question the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia asked in a drug dog case a few years ago. The police in Illinois aren’t worried about the well-being of drug dogs.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2018 00:33 UTC