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A Twitter post by Kylie Cunningham @kyyylieeeee that reads “today at the airport one of the drug dogs set off a false alarm and officers rushed over to find out the dog had alerted them for a piece of pizza. the handler just patted his head and goes “it’s okay buddy i know pizza always confuses you” and gave him his treat anyways.”
They should be required to keep a comprehensive database about any dog whose alert could be used as probable cause. Every time they alert, and whether it was successful or unsuccessful. Every time they are rewarded by their trainer. Every time they are tested and retrained.
Once the data is available, it will be extremely useful even if the police fake the data, because it will most likely be possible to tell that it’s fake.
There have been studies, dogs suck at actually finding things and are just useful for cops to create “probable cause” to do what they want.
Technically they do keep log books but if a dog doesn’t find something they just log it as trace evidence. “Some shake” " a mysterious powder" “hard crystalline substance” “there must have been people in there recently” things that would be hard to prove or disprove but maybe the hit average raise all the same.