WaPo: Federal appeals court: Drug dog that’s barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough

WaPo: Federal appeals court: Drug dog that’s barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough by Radley Balko:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a troubling ruling about drug dogs last week. U.S. v. Bentley is just the latest in a series of rulings in which the federal courts refuse to consider the possibility that police departments may be manipulating the dogs to authorize unlawful searches — or at the very least that police agencies aren’t ensuring that the dogs are being trained to minimize the possibility, even though that would be easy to do.