At airports across the US, DEA agents confront flyers as they are boarding flights and ask to search carry-on items. These interactions are supposed to be consensual. However, flyers often get the impression that they have no choice but to submit to a search.
DEA Caught Red-Handed: Airport Intimidation
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Terrible. I was once confronted for unconstitutional search for hard currency which I did not have on me.
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I'll keep this in mind
Chuck Gollnick
3mo
You go get ‘em, Institute for Justice !
Senior Electrical Engineer & New-Product Developer
3moThe dog and the handler exhibit very disturbing behavior. The dog alerts on the sight of a bag, not on the smell of drugs. And then the handler praises the dog for that behavior. This trained behavior cannot be untrained. Dogs have great memories. Once they learn a “trick” to get food or affection, that behavior can’t be untrained. Any attempt to do so will just confuse the poor dog. By teaching his dog to alert on the sight of a bag, that handler has ruined that dog. That dog now has to be disqualified as a drug dog and retired from service. There’s not much call for a bag-detection dog. But those dogs cost a lot of money. The training and keeping of the dog is an investment of tens of thousands of dollars. And the dog is government property. By his improper handling of it, that officer has destroyed tens of thousands of dollars worth of government property. He needs to not be working with dogs anymore.