Drug detection dogs often get it wrong, and it's a policing practice that needs to stop
- Written by: Daisy Gibbs, Evaluation Offier, Burnet Institute
Drug detection dogs are a street-level policing strategy that has now been used in Australia for more than 25 years.
The stated intent of this policy was to target drug supply. However, in 2006, the NSW Ombudsman showed most people detected by the dogs either had no drugs at all or were people who use drugs - not those who supply drugs.
Since that...
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