Hunter Viles™
Mrs. Lesky
Eng III 6th hour
19 September 2012
Whistle Blower Drugs are around. No matter where you go. It’s a fact of life. Many people try not to believe it, but it’s true. Cops do their job to make sure these “drugies” and “druge dealers” get caught and justice is served, right? Well, for the most part, they do. However, there is a right way and there is a crooked way to do things. Cops in Charlevoix have been proved to misuse drug dogs. Who knows who else have been using drug dogs to their advantage. They’re animals that can easily be trained and controlled by humans. Drug dogs should not be used because they aren’t always accurate, they cost too much, and some cops don’t use them in the correct way. “Send the K9 unit!” Sounds pretty promising if a cop yells that, but not as much as you may think. Drug dogs have been known to be easily thrown off. Bacon, beef, and common dog treats have been known to throw off the scent of a professionally trained drug dog. If a drug dealer knows this simple trick, an easy getaway could be in his future. Something that is so easily thrown off should not be dependable. A nose of a dog shouldn’t be the last resort to try to find something or someone. For one of the best drug dogs you can possible get, the lowest price is $5,000, not including shipping. Most K9 units come from Germany which can ride shipping costs up to $3,000 a dog. This reason goes hand and hand with the first reason previously stated. If we pay up to $8,000 for an unreliable resource, what’s with wasting our money? Though the dogs are already professionally trained, they still are unreliable and are not worth the money. Two Charlevoix cops were fired last year after being found guilty for misusing drug dogs. The cops would throw treats next to suspicious looking cars to make the dogs sit down, the common sign for a dog to show if it smells any type of drugs. When a dog shows this sign, it gives cops an automatic search warrant. These cops did bust 5 people, but they also accused and searched 10 innocent citizens. Turns out the dogs were clueless when it came to actually searching for drugs. If these cops are doing it, what makes it safe to say that other cops around the country aren’t doing it? Some drug dogs actually do a good job. Some of them are very helpful and help our law enforcement catch the “bad guys.” Not all drug dogs are unreliable though. Why should we use something that is not reliable, expensive, and misused by the police force?
They shouldn’t be used at all in the United States.