I, too, was driving one night in a midwest state and I encountered one of these random checkpoints. I didn't have any herb on me but I realized I had a pipe in my coat pocket. All the side streets on this road had marked police cars blocking them off so nobody could turn around. I had to just hope for the best. They had me pull off the road into a parking lot and they asked me to roll the windows up and had my friend and I exit the vehicle. Then they walked a dog around the car and of course he was pawing away at my paint despite nothing being in the car. In my entire life, I've never seen a drug dog walk around a car without getting a "hit". The dog doesnt care if the cops find drugs or not, they just want their doggy treat. So they let the dog inside my car and it scratches up my leather, gets mud all over the car, etc. and they find nothing illegal. For some odd reason, they never searched ME, just my car. So the bowl was never discovered.
I don't think drug dogs should even be legal for police to use. They only serve one purpose: giving cops probable cause that they don't already have. The problem is, the dog is gonna paw at the car or jump up on it, or whatever, regardless of if there are drugs inside. Making it highly inaccurate and, as I said, generally just a fool-proof tool that cops use to search your car. |