re: TPSO seizes $800K in cash

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The couple was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.


where are you getting this?

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He's making it up, or assuming this is what the charge may be but there is no evidence or proof of this.

Rapides Parish SO

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Which agency, if you don't mind saying?

LSP or local yokel?

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Another retarded post. If there is no transmission from the cop's antenna, how can a radar detector detect? It detects by acknowledging radio signals produced when the cop's radar is activated. When it is not activated, there is nothing for the "passport 8500" to detect. It's just a chunk of metal and wires until it's activated and a signal is produced.

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Whatever happened here?

Drug dogs lol

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Drug dogs lol

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Almost like they are trained to find drugs on command.

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K-9's are a joke. They have amazing noses but they will "hit" on anything the officer wants them to.

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There was a court case I read about where this one dog would alert on 90% of cars sniffed. They found drugs 55% of the time, and the courts ruled the searches legal because of probable cause, as in the majority of time they find something . The dog is probable cause on four legs.

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In U.S. v. Bentley, we see just how damaging the Harris decision really was. Lex, the drug dog that searched Bentley’s car, had a 93 percent alert rate. That is, when Lex was called to search a car, he alerted 93 percent of the time. He was basically a probable cause generator. His success rate was much lower, at 59 percent. That is, the police actually found drugs just six of the 10 times Lex told them they would. That means that four of every 10 people Lex alerted to were subjected to a thorough roadside search that produced nothing illegal

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It gets worse. Even a dog that was well trained initially can be conditioned to pick up bad habits once it’s in the field. This is exactly what was happening with Lex. It turns out that Lex’s handler gives the dog a reward every time he alerts, regardless of whether that alert is accurate. Lex isn’t getting rewarded for filtering innocent motorists from guilty ones. He’s being trained to authorize a search, each and every time he’s called to duty.

The Seventh Circuit found all of this troubling, even conceding that the reward policy was “a terrible way to promote accurate detection.” And yet according to the three-judge panel that heard the case, none of this was enough to amount to a violation of the Fourth Amendment. 

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Actually, that's a current supreme court case which had oral argument less than a month ago.

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And now the ethics committees in different states are on board.

A company was accused of money laundering and they paid the lawyers 500k. The federal government said that they couldn't use the money and ethics charges were filed. The ethics committee said that the lawyers should have conducted a thorough investigation in order to assure the money didn't come from illegal activity.

We are getting to the point where criminals will soon not be able to afford representation at all.

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There was a court case I read about where this one dog would alert on 90% of cars sniffed. They found drugs 55% of the time, and the courts ruled the searches legal because of probable cause, as in the majority of time they find something . The dog is probable cause on four legs.

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Then the issue is with the court system. I firmly believe dogs are scary accurate and a great indicator of hitting on what they're trained to hit on, at least the ones I've encountered that have received the extra training that others might not get. The problem is when a less than honest officer "interprets" a signal from the dog to be a hit.

I'm on the federal side up in the Northwest and I've noticed that many states are moving away from a K9 establishing PC. Montana and Washington state now both need more than a K9 hit for a search. Now they have two options:

1) Find a fed K9 handler to conduct a sniff for them, as for us a K9 hit still grants PC on the federal side.

2) Use the positive K9 hit as a reason to temporarily detain and seek a warrant. Most judges will write a search warrant for a positive K9 hit but at least that puts another layer between the local cop and getting to search anything just because he says so.