{"id":18299,"date":"2015-08-05T06:49:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18299"},"modified":"2015-08-05T06:49:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:49:23","slug":"wapo-federal-appeals-court-drug-dog-thats-barely-more-accurate-than-a-coin-flip-is-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18299","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Federal appeals court: Drug dog that\u2019s barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/08\/04\/federal-appeals-court-drug-dog-thats-barely-more-accurate-than-a-coin-flip-is-good-enough\/\">Federal appeals court: Drug dog that\u2019s barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough<\/a> by Radley Balko: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u2014 or at the very least that police agencies aren\u2019t ensuring that the dogs are being trained to minimize the possibility, even though that would be easy to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Federal appeals court: Drug dog that\u2019s 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. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18300,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions\/18300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}