Assertion: police dog's handler | /r/CapableOf | train dog
Facets:
value: to respond to intentional subtle cues
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: On this note, there have been lawsuits in the United States alleging that some handlers are actually training the dogs to respond to intentional subtle cues they give so that the police can then conduct an otherwise illegal search any time they please.
text: Let’s go back to the zip-loc baggie of marijuana placed in the drawer: the K-9 smells marijuana and a plastic baggie, so the handler should train the dog to not alert on zip-lock bags because they are not contraband.
text: That said, during the previously mentioned study published in Animal Cognition, the experimenter “was informed that three handlers admitted to overtly cuing their dogs to alert” where the handler thought there was drugs, implying that this is something at least some handlers have trained their dogs to do when the handler thinks drugs are present.