• ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Dogs don't have moral agency. ACAB does include police dogs, but it's not their fault that they're trained the way they are.

    Not mentioned in the article: sniffer dogs are good at chasing runaway slaves, but them finding drugs is basically psuedoscience. Cops basically train them to give false positives so that they can have probable cause for searches.

    • KasDapital [any]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah it's ACAB but don't blame them for their own abuse.

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I’ve read before that dogs are so attached to their handlers and so good at reading human body language that a cop dog will be able to pick up if its racist handler is suspicious of someone, even subconsciously. So unfortunately racist cops means racist cop dogs which sit down next to minorities far more than crackas.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        Yup. It's been proven over and over again; Cop dogs will alert when the Cop wants them to, even if the Cop doesn't know he's doing anything to signal to them.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

        • commenter [none/use name]
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          edit-2
          2 years ago

          come on, that doesn't mean the dog is racist. use your brain, don't agree with this shit

          fucking wikipedia, what is this reddit

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
            hexagon
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            2 years ago

            No, it means the dog reads it's handlers body language and alerts when it senses that the handler wants it to alert. They're not racist, they don't know why they're doing what they do, they're just playing a game that they enjoy and get rewarded for. They'll pick up on cues from their handler and do what they think their handler wants.