Re: Old Topic...Re-Discovered

["Casey R. Green" <caseyr@uidaho.edu>]

> ---"Jason E. Abbott" <jabbott@uidaho.edu> wrote: (snip)
> >
> >  What if there were dogs that roamed around listening for
> > gunshots or the screams of people in distress?  Would that be
> > "unreasonable"?
>
> *****************************
> I know this is old...but it's taken me awhile to get around to reading
> all the posts on this topic.
>
> Mr. Abbott raised the above question.
>
> My question is why indeed AREN'T there dogs trained to roam about and
> detect gunshots or screams or spousal abuse or child abuse or
> assault/battery (all usually related to the legal drug alcohol) or
> trained to detect alcohol itself in cars, lockers etc.?  Why indeed
> are the dogs only trained to only detect illicit substances that
> individuals make a private, personal decision to ingest?
>
> Why isn't there a Quad-Cities Violence Task Force or Child Abuse Task
> Force or Hate Crimes Task Force?    How about a Missing Persons Task
> Force?!  Why doesn't the current Quad Cities Drug Task Force also
> concern itself with the abuse of legal drugs like alcohol, the drug
> that overwhelmingly wreaks the most havoc and destruction on our
> society?
>
> Why?
>
> Greg Meyer
>
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The obvious first difference is that the incidents listed above usually
involve a victim that can speak out and seek assistance.  The legal drug
alcohol is sometimes just a contributing factor to the problem, but not
always the problem itself.  and although I have no personal knowledge of
any task forces on the above issues, I'm certain that there is someone in
our country throwing money at those issues instead of seeking solutions to
the problems.  The dogs are trained to seek out an ILLEGAL substance.  and
that private, personal decision is still ILLEGAL until otherwise
legislated.

Casey R. Green