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minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoIf you’re traveling somewhere with extremely restrictive drug laws (e.g. Singapore), you can be sentenced to prison for drug particles on your shoes. i.e. you can accidentally have forbidden substances on you.
minus-squareTurtleTourParty@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoDo they test everyone’s shoes or do you just have to be extremely unlucky?
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI’d assume they’re just doing the rounds with drug sniffer dogs. Those dogs have crazy sensitivity.
minus-squareskulblaka@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoDrug dogs have an average success rate of about 44%. If they’re sniffing around a Latino that rate drops to 27%. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right They can sort of smell drugs, sometimes, but more often than not they are simply a tool that manufactures probable cause.
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If you’re traveling somewhere with extremely restrictive drug laws (e.g. Singapore), you can be sentenced to prison for drug particles on your shoes. i.e. you can accidentally have forbidden substances on you.
Do they test everyone’s shoes or do you just have to be extremely unlucky?
I’d assume they’re just doing the rounds with drug sniffer dogs. Those dogs have crazy sensitivity.
Drug dogs have an average success rate of about 44%.
If they’re sniffing around a Latino that rate drops to 27%.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right
They can sort of smell drugs, sometimes, but more often than not they are simply a tool that manufactures probable cause.