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 Trekkies Expose Police Corruption
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Darth Lex
Posted: Apr 2 2012, 10:25 AM


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This is really damning stuff: Illinois Traffic Stop Of Star Trek Fans Raises Concerns About Drug Searches, Police Dogs, Bad Cops

There's a lot of issues in the article, and I've taught a bunch of them in various classes over the years. But I particularly like this part:
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In one study published last year in the journal Animal Cognition, researchers rigged some tests designed to fool dogs into falsely alerting and others designed to trick handlers into thinking a package contained narcotics (it didn't). Of the 144 total searches performed, the dogs falsely alerted 123 times. More interesting, the dogs were twice as likely to falsely alert to packages designed to trick their handlers than those designed to trick the dogs.

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T'Keira Lea
Posted: Apr 2 2012, 10:41 AM


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The lesson being - don't mess with Trekkies.


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