{"id":57381,"date":"2024-03-20T07:21:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57381"},"modified":"2024-03-20T07:21:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:21:25","slug":"techdirt-court-to-cops-theres-no-instinct-exception-for-drug-dogs-handlers-refuse-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57381","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Court To Cops: There\u2019s No \u2018Instinct Exception\u2019 For Drug Dogs Handlers Refuse To Handle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2024\/03\/19\/court-to-cops-theres-no-instinct-exception-for-drug-dogs-handlers-refuse-to-handle\/\">Court To Cops: There\u2019s No \u2018Instinct Exception\u2019 For Drug Dogs Handlers Refuse To Handle<\/a> by Tim Cushing (\u201cOfficers who handle drug dogs like to claim they\u2019re so highly skilled at animal handling they can recognize otherwise imperceptible moves by their animals as the dog \u2018alerting,\u2019 giving them (and, more literally) their animals free rein to perform warrantless searches of vehicles. [\u00b6] But when these arguments fail, and it\u2019s apparent a K-9 cop just let their animal roam free, these same officers who pride themselves (at least when sworn in as witnesses) in controlling their animals claim these same animals can\u2019t possibly be controlled. After all, the dogs operate on instinct, and who among us is capable of preventing an animal from acting on its urges?\u201d) The case is <a href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57247\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Court To Cops: There\u2019s No \u2018Instinct Exception\u2019 For Drug Dogs Handlers Refuse To Handle by Tim Cushing (\u201cOfficers who handle drug dogs like to claim they\u2019re so highly skilled at animal handling they can recognize otherwise imperceptible moves by &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57381\">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-57381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57381","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=57381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57382,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57381\/revisions\/57382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}