“Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries recalls a traffic stop years ago that plays a big part in all his K-9 graduation ceremony addresses, in which he always says an officer will never have a better partner than a K-9.

“Fries had pulled up behind a broken-down vehicle believed to have been stolen, and the suspect immediately began walking away from the car. As Fries got out of his cruiser, his K-9 partner, still inside the car, barked. The man froze, and Fries promptly placed him into custody.

“’I asked him, ‘So why didn’t you run?’ Fries said. ‘He said, ‘I heard that dog barking.’

“‘Just having the presence of the dog barking in the car changes people attitudes.’

“The intimidation factor, along with a nose that is reportedly thousands of times more sensitive than a human’s, can turn a suspicious traffic stop into a search with probable cause and a drug bust.”

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“So far in 2009, state K-9s have located over 712 pounds of marijuana and 49 pounds of cocaine. They’ve been involved in 696 arrests and helped seize $697,815.

“Indiana’s state K-9s are successful 35 percent of the time, well over the national average of 7 percent to 15 percent.

“Local statistics were not available. But because trainer Bob Compton handles K-9 training for much of the state as well as the region, similar figures are possible.”

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Intimidation and a possible 35% “success” rate (given the lack of context and the admitted guessing, I don’t think this number even means anything). Awesome.

That said, perhaps JS has some info he’s not sharing about how long this particular dog had been serving on boats, but I doubt it. Maybe one of the customs agents said “Seems like that dog is never going to get over these continuous bouts of seasickness” or maybe ‘seasick’ is just JS’s personal diagnosis of the dog’s problem. Neither you nor I have any such info yet, because JS didn’t elaborate. It’s still illogical to reach the conclusion that JS reached given the story he told.

Well, for me I don’t have any problems with sea-sickness, thus I would be a good choice to serve in a job that had me spending lots of time on boats.

How well do you perform when you’re ‘throwing-up sick’? How’s your sense of smell when you’re just vomitted?

Where has he been for the last two years?

You missed the part about “If the stone gets damp from sweat, there is probable cause for a full search of the suspect’s body/car/house.”

Other than the marginal and limited utility of bloodhounds for tracking escaped convicts and such police should be prohibited from using them in any capacity.

Through rare scientific and pseudoscientific procedures, I have created a powerful magic rock which will determine guilt or innocence.

Simply place my Justice Stone in the hand of the alleged perpetrator and ask them if the stone feels heavy.

If the stone feels heavy, it is the weight of their conscious giving the rock mass. They are guilty.

If the stone does not feel heavy, they are obviously liars and are likely lying about not doing whatever it is you think they did. They are also guilty.

If they refuse to answer, they are non-cooperative and may be tazed until they answer.

I am willing to sell these rocks to your department for the low, low cost of $100,000 per unit.

Act now!

Cause, you know, the provision of law and order could never be managed privately.

I remember watching an episode of Forensic Files positively profiling her work. A couple of years later, CourtTV was exposing her as a fraud. It was one of the rare cases where a cop was the one who initially reported the fraud.

He’s dead, Jim. :)

Still, if he was alive he would still believe that he was correct in EVERY case. Pretty easy to claim 100% accuracy when you never admit an error even with the facts staring you in the face.

Like the owner of the famous horse, Preston may actually have believed in his dog’s abilities.

There is no fool more dangerous than a self-deluded fool with power – in this case, the literal power to send people to jail