need

Want

And I'm saying we should stop letting them have them

justice department wants them as well. They need all the help they can get filling their private prisons.

The cops need the dogs as probable cause generators.

I moved to a border area in 2018. The first time I went through a CBP checkpoint I watched the agent tap the side of my campervan; when the dog "alerted" (looked where he tapped) they pulled me out of line for an inspection. Totes legit.

They put me on the bench where the handcuffs were hanging. It took ~45mins to toss the camper interior.

Since then I've been through checkpoints countless times with no pullouts or dog "alerts". IMO the most likely explanation is they wanted an excuse to inspect the camper at first contact.

Bees are better and more ethical than dogs.

https://worldbeeproject.org/2023/06/08/training-bees-to-detect-bombs/

You can train them to search for any smell.

But nonorganic methods to "smell" exist too

In most tests, coin flips outperform dogs for both drugs and explosives.

You DO NOT cross train the dogs...where I can't see problems that a cadaver dog would cause, cross training a bomb and drug dog is a disaster waiting to happen

Those are called cadaver dogs and like you said very useful for finding people needed to be found.

If they didn't roll the R right, I can see hearing "pehdo"