can drug dogs smell through activated carbon?

[Hawk]

...Where/why are the(re) dogs?

There are places where this happens even though it shouldn't.

http://www.mapinc.org/newsnorml/v08/n284/a04.html

I've been stopped on an I-8 border patrol checkpoint. I was probably 100miles from the nearest border crossing and wasn't even coming or going from the boarder--just driving on an interstate highway minding my own business.

Dog barely flinched as I drove past at maybe 10 mph. There were NO drugs in the vehicle. Either 1) it was a false signal, or 2) the dog signaled from a jacket exposed to pot 1 full week prior (jacket was in a duffel bag). Dog crawled all over the vehicle and never zeroed in or signaled again. The border officer saw fit to get into everything anyway. Nothing was found since there was nothing to find.

It's messed up what happens at those checkpoints. Because of their association with border enforcement (even though they're not on any actual borders) no probable cause is needed. It's just like crossing a border--except you're NOT crossing any border. They can pull anyone aside and search them for no reason. When the dogs are out, the sniff every vehicle driving by. And the border patrol officers have been given special deputized rights by the sheriff to nab folks for pot. They've got a racket going on and it ain't right.

 

[MK3]

There are places where this happens even though it shouldn't.

http://www.mapinc.org/newsnorml/v08/n284/a04.html

I've been stopped on an I-8 border patrol checkpoint. I was probably 100miles from the nearest border crossing and wasn't even coming or going from the boarder--just driving on an interstate highway minding my own business.

Dog barely flinched as I drove past at maybe 10 mph. There were NO drugs in the vehicle. Either 1) it was a false signal, or 2) the dog signaled from a jacket exposed to pot 1 full week prior (jacket was in a duffel bag). Dog crawled all over the vehicle and never zeroed in or signaled again. The border officer saw fit to get into everything anyway. Nothing was found since there was nothing to find.

It's messed up what happens at those checkpoints. Because of their association with border enforcement (even though they're not on any actual borders) no probable cause is needed. It's just like crossing a border--except you're NOT crossing any border. They can pull anyone aside and search them for no reason. When the dogs are out, the sniff every vehicle driving by. And the border patrol officers have been given special deputized rights by the sheriff to nab folks for pot. They've got a racket going on and it ain't right.

I hear ya. Same deal going through Blythe, CA on the I-10.

Ya know, I remember reading about another country that started setting up road blocks to police their population and control their movement, and they used german shepherds and storm troopers (or did I mean state troopers, no matter) just like we do...welcome to Amerika.