TranscriptionA Twitter post by Kylie Cunningham @kyyylieeeee that reads “today at the airport one of the drug dogs set off a false alarm and officers rushed over to find out the dog had alerted them for a piece of pizza. the handler just patted his head and goes "it's okay buddy i know pizza always confuses you" and gave him his treat anyways.”

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[+] 21 points 1 year ago* (12 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Let's just not forget that those dogs are also trained to smell exposives which can be a cool thing not to have aboard an airplane.

    Then those dogs, in airport and in police settings, are correctly cared for. And even if acab, these dogs aren't tools of fascism.

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  • [+] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Airport security has never actually caught a bomb or a terrorist

    Citation needed.

    Alternatively I'd accept "rarely" instead of "never".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Citation needed.

    Apparently it "happened" once in 1972 with an obvious briefcase on a plane with a bomb threat.

    I'll accept any other tale. Even just one.

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  • 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot

    2017 Australian aeroplane bomb plot - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Australian_aeroplane_bomb_plot

    Man who planned to shoot up Atlanta's airport is arrested in a terminal following a tip, police say | abc7.com https://abc7.com/post/man-planned-shoot-atlantas-airport-is-arrested-terminal-following-tip-police-say/18046411/

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The justification is that they're supposed to smell explosives (and they fail at that with an incredible rate anyways), but they're used to harass non-white people. Security theater doesn't actually help with security.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Probable cause generator, maybe. Pseudoscience, no — dogs can be trained to have low false positive rates. It just so happens they're trained to generate probable cause, more than they are detecting drugs/bombs.

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